Spragueia apicalis

Spragueia apicalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Spragueia
Species:	S. apicalis
Binomial name
Spragueia apicalis Herrich-Schäffer, 1868
Synonyms
Emmelia apicalis Herrich-Schaffer, 1868 Mnesipyrga trichostrota Meyrick, 1913 Fruva accepta H. Edwards, 1881 Agrophila truncatula Zeller, 1873 Heliocontia obliquella Strand, 1912

The Yellow Spragueia (Spragueia apicalis) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is also found in North America (including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas), Central America (including El Salvador^[1] and Costa Rica),^[2] Cuba^[3] and Peru.

The wingspan is about 16 mm for females and 17 mm for males. Adults are sexually dimorphic. The forewings of the males are yellow, shaded with a light orange on the outer third. The hindwings are uniform smoky dark brown. Females are gray-brown. The hindwings are dark, smoky brown.^[4]

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Gutierrezia sarothrae.

References

1. mothphotographersgroup
2. BOLD Systems
3. The Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) trom Cuba described by Herrich-Schãffer and Gundlach in the Gundlach Collection, Havana
4. nearctica.com