Drasteria petricola

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Drasteria petricola
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Drasteria
Species:
D. petricola
Binomial name
Drasteria petricola
(Walker, 1858)
Synonyms
  • Euclidia petricolaWalker, 1858
  • Syneda petricola(Walker, 1858)
  • Synedoida petricola(Walker, 1858)
  • Syneda athabascaNeumoegen, 1883
  • Syneda crokeriBarnes & Benjamin, 1924

Drasteria petricola, the little arches, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1858. [1] It is found in western North America from Yukon and the Northwest Territories south to New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains, east to Manitoba.

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The wingspan is about 34 mm. Adults are on wing from May to July.

The larvae feed on Hedysarum species. Adults feed on the nectar of flowers, including mint in Utah.

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References

  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Drasteria petricola (Walker 1858)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.

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