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Apamea (moth)

Apamea is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.

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Apamea
Apamea lithoxylaea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Noctuinae
Tribe: Apameini
Genus: Apamea
Ochsenheimer, 1816
Synonyms
  • Abromias Billberg, 1820
  • Agroperina Hampson, 1908
  • Agrostobia Boie, 1835
  • Crymodes Guenée, 1841
  • Dimya Moore, 1882
  • Eleemosia Prout, 1901
  • Eurabila Butler, 1889
  • Hama Stephens, 1829
  • Heteromma Warren, 1911
  • Heterommiola Strand, 1912
  • Ommatostola Grote, 1873
  • Protagrotis Hampson, 1903
  • Septis Hübner, 1821
  • Syma Stephens, 1850
  • Trichoplexia Hampson, 1908
  • Xylophasia Stephens, 1829

Apamea is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.1

Some Apamea species are pest insects. The larval Apamea niveivenosa is a cutworm known as a pest of grain crops in North America.2 The larva of A. apamiformis is the rice worm, the most serious insect pest of cultivated wild rice in the Upper Midwest of the United States.3

Selected species

Former species

References

References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Apamea Ochsenheimer, 1816". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
  2. "Apamea niveivenosa". Pacific Northwest Moths.
  3. Oelke, E. A. 1993. "Wild rice: Domestication of a native North American genus". p. 235-43. In: Janick, J. and J. E. Simon (eds.), New Crops. Wiley, New York.
  4. Kononenko, V. (2006). Apamea permixta, sp. n., from China - the putative sister species of A. commixta (Butler) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Xyleninae: Apameini). Zootaxa 1371: 37-43.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Butler (1881). Transactions of Entomological Society of London 1881: 174.