Cerastis fishii

Cerastis fishii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Cerastis
Species: C. fishii
Binomial name
Cerastis fishii
(Grote, 1878)
Synonyms
  • Agrotis fishii Grote, 1878
  • Metalepsis fishii (Grote, 1878)
  • Metalepsis heinrichi (Barnes & Benjamin, 1929)

Cerastis fishii is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in eastern North America from Newfoundland to southern Ontario in Canada. In the United States it is found from Maine west to Ohio, Michigan, and northern Wisconsin, then south to North Carolina. Recently it has also been recorded from Tennessee.

The wingspan is 30–36 mm. Adults are on wing from March to June.

The larvae feed on the flowers and the leaves of blueberry.

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