Psammopolia arietis
Appearance
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Psammopolia |
Species: | P. arietis
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Binomial name | |
Psammopolia arietis (Grote, 1879)
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Psammopolia arietis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It occurs on Pacific Coast sand beaches from Mendocino, California to south-western Alaska. It is absent from the inland Strait of Georgia.[1]
Adults are on wing from late July to early September.
The larvae live in sand dunes and feed on Lathyrus littoralis, Polygonum paronychia, Abronia latifolia and an unspecified grass.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Crabo, Lars; Lafontaine, Donald (2009-12-18). "A Revision of Lasionycta Aurivillius (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) for North America and notes on Eurasian species, with descriptions of 17 new species, 6 new subspecies, a new genus, and two new species of Tricholita Grote". ZooKeys (30): 1–156. Bibcode:2009ZooK...30....1C. doi:10.3897/zookeys.30.308. ISSN 1313-2970.
- ^ "PNW Moths | Psammopolia arietis". pnwmoths.biol.wwu.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-26.