Autographa flagellum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Autographa
- Species
- Autographa flagellum
- Scientific Name
- Autographa flagellum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Autographa flagellum
Autographa flagellum, the silver whip, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1858. It is found in North America from Newfoundland west across southern Canada to south-eastern British Columbia, south in the east to Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin. There are isolated reports from further south (Pennsylvania and Colorado).
The wingspan is 35–40 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August depending on the location. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on Liatris and Helianthus species.
...Autographa flagellum in languages:
- English
- Silver Whip Moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Autographa aemula
- Autographa ain
- Autographa albavitta
- Autographa alias
- Autographa ampla
- Autographa amurica
- Autographa bimaculata
- Autographa bonaerensis
- Autographa bractea
- Autographa buraetica
- Autographa californica
- Autographa camptosema
- Autographa corusca
- Autographa crypta
- Autographa dudgeoni
- Autographa egena
- Autographa excelsa
- Autographa flagellum
- Autographa flavida
- Autographa gamma
- Autographa jessica
- Autographa jota
- Autographa khinjana
- Autographa labrosa
- Autographa macrogamma
- Autographa manchurica
- Autographa mandarina
- Autographa mappa
- Autographa metallica
- Autographa monogramma
- Autographa nekrasovi
- Autographa nigrisigna
- Autographa pasiphaeia
- Autographa precationis
- Autographa pseudogamma
- Autographa pulchrina
- Autographa purpureofusa
- Autographa rubidus
- Autographa sansoni
- Autographa schalisema
- Autographa speciosa
- Autographa urupina
- Autographa v-alba
- Autographa v-minus
- Autographa ypsilon