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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

Genus Abagrotis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Print References · Works Cited
Greater Red Dart - Abagrotis alternata Abagrotis nanalis - Hodges #11038 - Abagrotis nanalis Noctuidae: Abagrotis orbis - Abagrotis orbis Moth - Abagrotis apposita Abagrotis mirabilis - - Abagrotis mirabilis Abagrotis hermina Abagrotis magnicupida Noctuidae: Abagrotis erratica - Abagrotis erratica
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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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Abagrotis Smith, 1890
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 39 species of the genus Abagrotis in America north of Mexico. (1)
Range
Distributed widely throughout the Nearctic region except Alaska and extreme northern Canada. (2)
Print References
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: 1-21. (2)
Smith, J.B., 1890. Revision of the genus Abagrotis. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 38: 1-237
Works Cited
1.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 .
2.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.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 12 January, 2007 - 12:06pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, Randy Hardy
Last updated 12 October, 2013 - 7:29pm

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