Agrotis photophila
Light-loving noctuid moth | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Agrotis |
Species: | † A. photophila |
Binomial name | |
† Agrotis photophila (Butler, 1879) | |
Location of Oʻahu | |
Synonyms | |
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The Light-loving noctuid moth, Agrotis photophila was a species of moth in the Noctuidae family. It was endemic to Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, United States.[2]
This moth was last reported around 1900.[3] Two dead specimens are preserved in the British Museum. These had been collected near Honolulu in the 19th century. At that time the species was already rare. [4]
These dead specimens have been described thus:[5]
35—40 mm. Antennae in ,? bidentate with long triangular processes. Fore- wings light greyish-ochreous sprinkled with fuscous ; subbasal, first, and second lines indicated by more or less distinct blackish dots, first and second sometimes forming undefined waved lines ; posterior edge of reniform sometimes indicated by black scales ; traces of a darker praesubterminal shade ; a terminal series of dark fuscous dots. Hindwings light greyish-ochreous, posteriorly infuscated.
References
- ↑ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Agrotis photophila". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 2014-06-19.
- ↑ Bishop Museum
- ↑ Artensterben - Insekten
- ↑ Fauna Hawaiiensis
- ↑ Fauna Hawaiiensis