Agrotis photophila

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]

light-loving noctuid moth

Extinct  (before 1986)  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Agrotis
Species:
†A. photophila
Binomial name
†Agrotis photophila
(Butler, 1879)
Location of Oʻahu
Synonyms
  • Agrotis lucicolens (Butler, 1880)
  • Euxoa photophila (Butler, 1879)
  • Leucania photophila Butler, 1879
  • Spaelotis lucicolens Butler, 1880

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
  1. 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.
  2. Bishop Museum Archived January 30, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  3. Artensterben - Insekten Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Fauna Hawaiiensis
  5. Fauna Hawaiiensis


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