Biology:Psammopolia wyatti

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Short description: Species of moth

Psammopolia wyatti
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Psammopolia
Species:
P. wyatti
Binomial name
Psammopolia wyatti
(Barnes & Benjamin, 1926)[1]
Synonyms
  • Polia wyatti (Barnes & Benjamin, 1926)
  • Lasionycta wyatti (McDunnough, 1938)

Psammopolia wyatti is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1926. It occurs in western North America from southern Oregon to the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia.[1] The moth has been included in both 1983 and 2010 MONA indices.[2]

Adults fly over sand beaches, are nocturnal, and come to light.

Adults are on wing from late May to early September.

The larvae feed on Polygonum paronychia, Abronia latifolia, Tanacetum camphoratum and grass.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Section 3. Macromoths, 70. Noctuidae (owlet moths)". Checklist of the Lepidoptera of British Columbia, Canada. Entomological Society of British Columbia Occasional Paper No. 3. 2015. pp. 150, 158, 168. ISBN 978-1-4834-3519-0. https://archive.org/details/occasionalpaper3ento. 
  2. "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (Pensoft) (40): 1–239. 2010. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414. https://pensoft.net/J_FILES/1/articles/414/414-G-1-layout.pdf. 

External links

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