Apamea (moth)

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Apamea
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Apamea lithoxylaea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Tribe: Apameini
Genus: Apamea
Ochsenheimer, 1816
Synonyms
  • AbromiasBillberg, 1820
  • AgroperinaHampson, 1908
  • AgrostobiaBoie, 1835
  • CrymodesGuenée, 1841
  • DimyaMoore, 1882
  • EleemosiaProut, 1901
  • EurabilaButler, 1889
  • HamaStephens, 1829
  • HeterommaWarren, 1911
  • HeterommiolaStrand, 1912
  • OmmatostolaGrote, 1873
  • ProtagrotisHampson, 1903
  • SeptisHübner, 1821
  • SymaStephens, 1850
  • TrichoplexiaHampson, 1908
  • XylophasiaStephens, 1829

Apamea is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816. [1]

Contents

Some Apamea species are pest insects. The larval Apamea niveivenosa is a cutworm known as a pest of grain crops in North America. [2] The larva of A. apamiformis is the rice worm, the most serious insect pest of cultivated wild rice in the Upper Midwest of the United States. [3]

Selected species

Former species

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References

  1. ↑ Savela, Markku. "Apamea Ochsenheimer, 1816". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Apamea niveivenosa". Pacific Northwest Moths.
  3. ↑ Oelke, E. A. 1993. "Wild rice: Domestication of a native North American genus". p. 235-43. In: Janick, J. and J. E. Simon (eds.), New Crops. Wiley, New York.
  4. ↑ Kononenko, V. (2006). Apamea permixta, sp. n., from China - the putative sister species of A. commixta (Butler) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Xyleninae: Apameini). Zootaxa 1371: 37-43.

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