Kerr's Noctuid Moth
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| Kerr's Noctuid Moth | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Agrotis |
| Species: | A. kerri |
| Binomial name | |
| Agrotis kerri Swezey, 1920 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Euxoa kerri |
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The Kerr's Noctuid Moth (Agrotis kerri) was a species of moth in the Noctuidae family. It is now extinct.
This moth was endemic to the French Frigate Shoals, Outlying Hawaiian Islands, United States.
The larvae have been recorded on Boerhaavia tetrandra and Poriulaca oleracea. The caterpillar had a length of about 50 mm when full-grown. It resembled the caterpillar of Agrotis crinigera except that the head was paler and almost entirely pale yellowish testaceous with a slender black line along the paraclypeal suture, where crinigera has quite a wide blackish mark. The cervical shield is also paler than that of crinigera.
[edit] Source
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Agrotis kerri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 31 July 2007.
- Lepidoptera of the Outlying Hawaiian Islands
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