Drasteria hudsonica

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Drasteria hudsonica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Drasteria
Species:
D. hudsonica
Binomial name
Drasteria hudsonica
(Grote & Robinson, 1865)
Synonyms
  • Syneda hudsonicaGrote & Robinson, 1865
  • Synedoida hudsonica(Grote & Robinson, 1865)
  • Syneda heathiBarnes & McDunnough, 1918
  • Syneda pedionisHampson, 1926
  • Syneda sepositaEdwards, 1881

Drasteria hudsonica, the northern arches, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1865. [1] It is found from Alaska and Yukon to California, east to New Mexico and Manitoba.

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The wingspan is 35–36 mm. Adults are on wing in June in the north. The flight period is earlier southward.

The larvae feed on Shepherdia canadensis .

Subspecies

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References

  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Drasteria hudsonica (Grote & Robinson 1865)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.