Light-loving noctuid moth

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Agrotis
Species:
A. photophila
Binomial name
Agrotis photophila
(Butler, 1879)
Location of Oʻahu
Synonyms
  • Agrotis lucicolens (Butler, 1880)
  • Euxoa photophila (Butler, 1879)
  • Leucania photophila Butler, 1879
  • Spaelotis lucicolens Butler, 1880

Agrotis photophila, the light-loving noctuid moth, is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, United States.[2]

This moth was last reported around 1900.[3] Two dead specimens are preserved in the British Museum. These had been collected near Honolulu in the 19th century. At that time the species was already rare.[4]

These dead specimens have been described thus:[5]

35—40 mm. Antennae in ,? bidentate with long triangular processes. Fore- wings light greyish-ochreous sprinkled with fuscous ; subbasal, first, and second lines indicated by more or less distinct blackish dots, first and second sometimes forming undefined waved lines ; posterior edge of reniform sometimes indicated by black scales ; traces of a darker praesubterminal shade ; a terminal series of dark fuscous dots. Hindwings light greyish-ochreous, posteriorly infuscated.

References

  1. ↑ Walker, A. & Medeiros, M.J. (2021). "Agrotis photophila". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T708A189703011. Retrieved 16 November 2021.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ Bishop Museum Archived January 30, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Artensterben - Insekten Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Fauna Hawaiiensis
  5. ↑ Fauna Hawaiiensis


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