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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 » Parabagrotis

Genus Parabagrotis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Food · Internet References

Parabagrotis exertistigma - Parabagrotis exsertistigma

Noctuidae: Parabragotis formalis - Parabagrotis formalis

Parabagrotis insularis ? - Parabagrotis insularis

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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 Parabagrotis

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

genus authored by Lafontaine in 1998

contained species were formerly placed in genus Rhynchagrotis (now dissolved) and Agrotis

4 of the contained species were described in the 1870s by Grote and Morrison

1 species (sulinaris) was described as new by Lafontaine in 1998

Numbers

5 species in North America listed at All-Leps

Size

wingspan 30-39 mm, based on six Internet photos

Range

British Columbia to California, east to Utah and Manitoba

Season

adults fly from April to October in California

Food

larvae feed on grasses and herbs

Internet References

pinned adult images of all 5 species in North America (CBIF)

pinned adult images of 3 species by Jim Vargo (Moth Photographers Group)

live adult image of sulinaris (Jeremy Tatum, Butterflies and Moths of Southern Vancouver Island)

pinned adult image of exertistigma, plus distribution, flight season, foodplants (Jeff Miller, Macromoths of Northwest Forests and Woodlands, USGS)

pinned adult images of exertistigma and sulinaris, plus collection site maps (All-Leps)

abstract of article proposing new genus and describing the species sulinaris (J.D. Lafontaine, The Moths of America North of Mexico)

presence in Utah of 1 species (Joel Johnson, Utah Lepidopterists Society)

presence in California of all 5 species, plus locations and dates (U. of California at Berkeley)

presence in Oregon of all 5 species [listed under Rhynchagrotis] (Oregon State U.)

distribution in Canada of all 5 species (U. of Alberta, using CBIF data)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 4 December, 2006 - 12:05am

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