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Agrotis kerri (Kerr's Noctuid Moth)

Wikipedia Abstract

Kerr's noctuid moth (Agrotis kerri) was a species of moth in the Noctuidae family. It is now extinct. This moth was endemic to the French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The larvae have been recorded on Boerhaavia tetrandra and Poriulaca oleracea. The caterpillar had a length of about 50 mm when full-grown. It resembled the caterpillar of Agrotis crinigera except that the head was paler and almost entirely pale yellowish testaceous with a slender black line along the paraclypeal suture, where A. crinigera has quite a wide blackish mark. The cervical shield is also paler than that of A. crinigera.
View Wikipedia Record: Agrotis kerri

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Agrotis kerri

Prey / Diet

Portulaca granulatostellulata (akulikuli-kula)[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0