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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Noctuini » Noctuina » Abagrotis » Abagrotis pulchrata - Hodges#11036 (Abagrotis pulchrata)

Species Abagrotis pulchrata - Hodges#11036

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

is this an arches moth? - Abagrotis pulchrata

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Noctuini

Subtribe Noctuina

Genus Abagrotis

Species pulchrata (Abagrotis pulchrata - Hodges#11036)

Hodges Number

11036

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Abagrotis pulchrata (Blackmore, 1925) (1), (2)

Lampra pulchrata Blackmore, 1925 (3)

Phylogenetic sequence # 933662

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 39 species of the genus Abagrotis in America north of Mexico. (4)

Size

Forewing length 14-17 mm. (5)

Identification

Original description: (3)

Photo identified by Bob Patterson

Range

Vancouver Island and British Columbia to central California.

Holotype collected at Maple Bay, near Duncan, British Columbia, Canada. (5)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Habitat

Pacific coastal forests. (5)

Season

The main flight period is August to September. (5), (6)

May record for British Columbia. (6)

Food

The larvae are known to feed on Rubus spp. (Rosaceae). (5)

See Also

Abagrotis scopeops

Print References

Blackmore, E.H., 1925. A new Noctuid from British Columbia. (Lepid.). The Canadian Entomologist, 57, p. 205. (3)

Buckett, J.S. 1968. Revision of the Nearctic moth genus Abagrotis Smith with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Part 1. California Department Of Agriculture: Occasional Papers 12: 16. (7)

Buckett, J.S. 1968. Revision of the Nearctic moth genus Abagrotis Smith with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Part 4. California Department Of Agriculture: Occasional Papers 16: 21. (2)

Lafontaine, J.D., 1998. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.3. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, p. 220; pl. 6.16(1)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (5)

Moth Photographers Group (6)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)

USGS.gov

Lepbarcoding.org

Works Cited

1.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuiodea, Noctuinae, Noctuini (Part), Fascicle 27.3 J. Donald LaFontaine. 1998. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

2.	Revision of the Nearctic moth genus Abagrotis Smith with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Part 4. John S. Buckett. 1968. California Department Of Agriculture: Occasional Papers 16: 1-27.

3.	A new Noctuid from British Columbia. (Lepid.). E. H. Blackmore. 1925. The Canadian Entomologist 57(8): 205.

4.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

5.	Pacific Northwest Moths

6.	North American Moth Photographers Group

7.	Revision of the Nearctic moth genus Abagrotis Smith with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Part 1. John S. Buckett. 1968. California Department Of Agriculture: Occasional Papers 12: 1-21.

8.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 14 June, 2012 - 10:01am
Last updated 12 October, 2013 - 8:08pm

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