Parexarnis photophila

Parexarnis photophila
Parexarnis photophila in Seitz (13c)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Parexarnis
Species:	P. photophila
Binomial name
Parexarnis photophila (Guenée, 1852)
Synonyms
Actebia (Parexarnis) photophila(Guenée, 1852) Actebia photophila(Guenée, 1852) Agrotis photophilaGuenée, 1852 Agrotis ignipetaOberthür, 1876

Parexarnis photophila is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found on the Canary Islands (La Gomera, Tenerife and Fuerteventura) and in Morocco, Algeria and the southern tip of Spain.

The wingspan is 45–55 mm. Adults are on wing from April to July depending.

Description from Seitz

R. photophila Guen. (=ignipeta Oberth.) (13c). Differs from the W. Asiatic sollers, to which it is otherwise closely allied, by the wholly white and markless underside, and by the paler hindwings. Algeria, C. Bon. ^[1]

References

1. Seitz A., 1914 Gross-Schmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes. Band 3: Die eulenartigen Nachtfalter. - 1-511 S., Taf.1-75, Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• Actebia (Parexarnis) photophila (Guenée, 1852)- a noctuid species new to mainland Spain and Europe- and records of Cydia blackmoreana (Walsingham,1903) - a micro-moth also new to Spain(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Tortricidae)