Kerr's noctuid moth
Kerr's noctuid moth | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Agrotis |
Species: | †A. kerri
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Binomial name | |
†Agrotis kerri Swezey, 1920
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Location of the French Frigate Shoals | |
Synonyms | |
Euxoa kerri |
Kerr's noctuid moth (Agrotis kerri) was a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. It is now extinct.
This moth was endemic to the French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
The larvae have been recorded on Boerhavia tetrandra and Portulaca 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 A. crinigera has quite a wide blackish mark. The cervical shield is also paler than that of A. crinigera.
References
- ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Agrotis kerri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 1996: e.T706A13069155. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T706A13069155.en. Retrieved 11 January 2018.