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Syngrapha u-aureum

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Species of moth

Syngrapha u-aureum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Syngrapha
Species: S. u-aureum
Binomial name
Syngrapha u-aureum
Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
  • Plusia u-aureum Guenée, 1852
  • Plusia interrogationis var. grönlandica Staudinger, 1857
  • Plusia interrogationis var. arctica Möschler, 1884
  • Autographa pallida Ottolengui, 1902
  • Syngrapha octoscripta pallida
  • Plusia vaccinii H. Edwards, 1886
  • Syngrapha arctica
  • Syngrapha groenlandica

Syngrapha u-aureum, the golden looper moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from eastern Manitoba to Quebec, Labrador, southern Greenland, Newfoundland, northern Maine, northern New Hampshire and northern New York.

Syngrapha u-aureum female
Syngrapha u-aureum male

There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Vaccinium species.

Subspecies

There are two recognised subspecies:

  • Syngrapha u-aureum u-aureum
  • Syngrapha u-aureum vaccinii

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Taxon identifiers
Syngrapha u-aureum


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