Drasteria hudsonica | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Genus: | Drasteria |
Species: | D. hudsonica |
Binomial name | |
Drasteria hudsonica | |
Synonyms | |
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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.
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 .
Citheronia sepulcralis, the pine-devil moth, is a Nearctic member of the family Saturniidae and of the subfamily Ceratocampinae. The species are blackish brown. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1865.
Copivaleria is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae erected by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1883. Its only species, Copivaleria grotei, or Grote's sallow, was first described by Herbert Knowles Morrison in 1874. It is found in eastern North America, including Ontario, Tennessee, New York and Maryland.
Drasteria is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae.
Andropolia aedon is a moth in the family Noctuidae first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1880. It is found in North America from British Columbia and Alberta south to California.
Drasteria adumbrata, the shadowy arches, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Hans Hermann Behr in 1870. It is found from coast to coast in southern Canada, south in the west to California and Colorado, south in the east to New England and Michigan. Subspecies D. a. alleni is found from eastern Alberta to New York and Nova Scotia. Subspecies D. a. saxea occurs from southern British Columbia and south-west Alberta south to California and Colorado.
Drasteria pallescens, the cowhead arches, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1866. It is found in North America from Alberta and Saskatchewan south to Texas and Baja California.
Drasteria perplexa, the perplexing or perplexed arches, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Henry Edwards in 1884. It is found in North America from Alberta and Saskatchewan south to Colorado and Arizona.
Drasteria petricola, the little arches, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1858. It is found in western North America from Yukon and the Northwest Territories south to New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains, east to Manitoba.
Drasteria divergens is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from California to Colorado, north to British Columbia.
Drasteria grandirena, the figure-seven moth or great kidney, is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809. It is found in North America from Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia, south to at least Georgia west to at least Arkansas
Drasteria howlandii is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from British Columbia and Saskatchewan south through the western parts of the United States from Washington south to Arizona and Texas.
Drasteria sabulosa is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from British Columbia south into the United States where it found as far east as Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and as far south as Arizona.
Drasteria edwardsii is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from Washington, through Oregon to California.
Drasteria ingeniculata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in south-central United States.
Drasteria fumosa, the smoky arches, is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Strecker in 1898. It is found from the US state of California east to Utah and Texas.
Drasteria graphica, the graphic moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1818. It is found in the United States in coastal dunes from Maine to Florida, west to Mississippi. It is also found along the shores of the Great Lakes in Michigan and Wisconsin. Subspecies D. g. atlantica is listed as threatened in Connecticut.
Drasteria inepta, the inept drasteria, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from Arizona to Texas, north to Colorado and Utah.
Euxoa cicatricosa is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1865. It is found in North America from south central Saskatchewan west to southern interior British Columbia; south to southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas; east to western Nebraska and North Dakota.
Spargaloma is a monotypic moth genus in the family Erebidae. Its only species is Spargaloma sexpunctata, the six-spotted gray. Both the genus and species were first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1873. It is found from coast to coast in lower Canada south in the east to Florida, Mississippi and Arkansas, in the west to California.
Heliomata cycladata, the common spring moth, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1866. It is found in eastern North America, with records from southern Ontario, southern Quebec, Maine, New Hampshire, Michigan, Wisconsin to South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, northern Mississippi and Arkansas.
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