Resapamea passer | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Resapamea |
Species: | R. passer |
Binomial name | |
Resapamea passer (Guenée, 1852) [1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Resapamea passer, the dock rustic moth, is a moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found from central Alberta to northern Arizona in the Rocky Mountain region. In the mid-Continent it ranges from Minnesota and southern Ontario to Oklahoma and North Carolina, reaching the Atlantic Coast from Newfoundland to Maryland. [2] The habitat consists of wetlands.
The length of the forewings is 15–19 mm. [3]
The larvae feed on Rumex and possibly Polygonum species. They bore into the stems and roots of their host plant.
Cycnia is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1818.
Chytolita is a monotypic litter moth genus of the family Erebidae erected by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1873. Its only species, Chytolita morbidalis, the morbid owlet moth or morbid owlet, was first described by Achille Guenée in 1854. It is found in large parts of North America, from coast to coast in the north and south to North Carolina, Texas and Florida in the west. The habitat consists of deciduous woods and edges.
Drasteria is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae.
Xestia perquiritata, the boomerang dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Herbert Knowles Morrison in 1874. It is found across North America from Newfoundland, Labrador and northern New England, west to central Yukon, British Columbia and Washington. There are several disjunct populations, including one in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and a coastal bog in central Oregon.
Eudryas brevipennis is a moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in Idaho, Utah and California, generally near wetland habitats.
Cycnia oregonensis is a moth in the family Erebidae. It is found in most of North America, from coast to coast and from the border with Mexico north to central Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia.
Resapamea diluvius is a moth in the family Noctuidae. It occurs in the Columbia Basin in Washington and northern Oregon. It is possibly also present in the dunes of northern Nevada and the northern Great Plains.
Resapamea angelika is a moth in the family Noctuidae. It only known from the vicinity of Angel Lake in the East Humboldt Range of north-eastern Nevada. The habitat consists of sedge meadows along tributaries of Angel Creek.
Resapamea mammuthus is a moth in the family Noctuidae. It only known only from the type locality at Old Crow, Yukon Territory.
Resapamea hedeni is a moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found from southern Europe to Japan.
Resapamea innota is a moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in eastern Washington and Oregon, across central and southern Idaho and northern and eastern California. The habitat consists of wet meadows at low or middle elevations.
Hydraecia obliqua is a moth in the family Noctuidae first described by Leon F. Harvey in 1876. It is found in western North America, east to the Sierra Nevada in California and the crest of the Cascade Range in Oregon and Washington. It occurs continuously on the coast north to south-western British Columbia, with a disjunct northern population at Terrace, British Columbia. The habitat consists of the riparian zone along creeks and rivers of coastal rainforests, as well as oak savanna, mixed hardwood forests and valley grasslands.
Hydraecia medialis is a moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in western North America. East of the Cascades, it occurs as far north as the Cariboo region in south-central British Columbia. The range extends across the Rocky Mountains in Montana and then spreads north and south on the Great Plains to reach Alberta, the western Dakotas and northern New Mexico. The habitat consists of open ponderosa pine forests, drier sagebrush steppe and juniper woodlands.
Hydraecia intermedia is a moth in the family Noctuidae first described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1924. It is only known from the holotype, with the type locality of Fort Calgary in south-western Alberta, Canada.
Fishia yosemitae, the dark grey fishia or grey fishia, is a moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found from central Alberta to Colorado in the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains regions. It is also found in eastern, central, and southern California, as well as in the Intermountain region. The habitat consists of dry open areas, including open ponderosa pine forests, juniper woodlands and sagebrush steppe at low to middle elevations.
Lithophane grotei, commonly known as Grote's pinion or Grote's sallow, is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. It was first described by Riley in 1882 and it is found in North America.
Lacinipolia triplehorni is a species of cutworm in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.
Tricholita chipeta is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It was first described by William Barnes in 1904 and it is found in North America.
Papaipema harrisii, known generally as the cow parsnip borer moth or heracleum stem borer, is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.
Apamea quinteri is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.