Drasteria hudsonica

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Melipotini
Genus: Drasteria
Species: D. hudsonica
Binomial name
Drasteria hudsonica
(Grote & Robinson, 1865)[1]
Synonyms
  • Syneda hudsonica Grote & Robinson, 1865
  • Synedoida hudsonica (Grote & Robinson, 1865)
  • Syneda heathi Barnes & McDunnough, 1918
  • Syneda pedionis Hampson, 1926
  • Syneda seposita Edwards, 1881

The Northern Arches (Drasteria hudsonica) is a moth of the Erebidae family. It is found from Alaska and Yukon to California, east to New Mexico and Manitoba.

The wingspan is 35–36 mm. Adults are on wing in June in the north. The flight period is earlier southward.

The larvae feed on Shepherdia canadensis.

Subspecies

References

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