Kerr's noctuid moth

Kerr's noctuid moth

Extinct  (last seen 1923) (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Agrotis
Species:
A. kerri
Binomial name
Agrotis kerri
Swezey, 1920
French Frigate Shoals map.png
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

  1. ^ 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.



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