Peridroma chersotoides

Peridroma chersotoides is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1881. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Maui. It has also been recorded from the islands of Molokai and Hawaii, but these references may be in error.

Peridroma chersotoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Noctuidae
Genus:
Peridroma
Species:
P. chersotoides
Binomial name
Peridroma chersotoides
(Butler, 1881)
Synonyms
  • Apamea chersotoides Butler, 1881
  • Agrotis chersotoides
  • Rhyacia chersotoides

Larvae possibly feed on pokeweed.

Taxonomy

There has been much confusion in the literature in reference to this species. In all the British Museum series, the only examples which can rightly be assigned to this species are the original pair taken by Thomas Blackburn.

  • Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1958). Insects of Hawaii. 7 Macrolepidoptera. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. hdl:10125/7336.


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