Biology:Spragueia apicalis
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| Species: | S. apicalis
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| Spragueia apicalis Herrich-Schäffer, 1868
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Spragueia apicalis, the yellow spragueia, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1868. It is also found in North America (including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas , Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas ), Central America (including El Salvador[1] and Costa Rica),[2] Cuba[3] and Peru.
The wingspan is about 16 mm for females and 17 mm for males. Adults are sexually dimorphic. The forewings of the males are yellow, shaded with a light orange on the outer third. The hindwings are uniform smoky dark brown. Females are gray brown. The hindwings are dark, smoky brown.[4]
The larvae have been recorded feeding on Gutierrezia sarothrae.
References
- ↑ "931391.00 – 9131 – Spragueia apicalis – Yellow Spragueia Moth – (Herrich-Schäffer, 1868)". Mississippi State University. http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=9131. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
- ↑ "Taxonomy Browser: Spragueia apicalis". http://www.boldsystems.org/views/taxbrowser.php?taxid=16124. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
- ↑ Becker, Vitor O. (2002). "The Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) from Cuba described by Herrich-Schäffer and Gundlach in the Gundlach Collection, Havana". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 19 (2): 349–391. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752002000200006. http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbzool/v19n2/v19n2a06.pdf.
- ↑ Noctuidae of North America
Wikidata ☰ Q7580189 entry
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