Agrotis photophila
| light-loving noctuid moth | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Agrotis |
| Species: | †A. photophila
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| Binomial name | |
| †Agrotis photophila (Butler, 1879)
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| Location of Oʻahu | |
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Agrotis photophila, the light-loving noctuid moth, was a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. It was 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
- ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Agrotis photophila". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T708A13069359. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T708A13069359.en.
- ^ Bishop Museum Archived January 30, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Artensterben - Insekten Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Fauna Hawaiiensis
- ^ Fauna Hawaiiensis