Drasteria graphica: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Drasteria
- Species
- Drasteria graphica
- Scientific Name
- Drasteria graphica
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Drasteria graphica
Drasteria graphica, the graphic moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1818. It is found in the United States in coastal dunes from Maine to Florida, west to Mississippi. It is also found along the shores of the Great Lakes in Michigan and Wisconsin. Subspecies D. g. atlantica is listed as threatened in Connecticut.
The wingspan is 30–35 mm. Adults are on wing from May to August and fly during the day.
Larvae consume Hudsonia.
...Drasteria graphica in languages:
- English
- Graphic Moth
- English
- Coastal Graphic
- English
- Coastal Graphic Owlet
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Drasteria aberrans
- Drasteria adumbrata
- Drasteria antiqua
- Drasteria axuana
- Drasteria biformata
- Drasteria cailino
- Drasteria cashmirensis
- Drasteria catocalis
- Drasteria caucasica
- Drasteria chinensis
- Drasteria christophi
- Drasteria coenobita
- Drasteria convergens
- Drasteria divergens
- Drasteria edwardsii
- Drasteria eubapta
- Drasteria flexuosa
- Drasteria fumosa
- Drasteria grandirena
- Drasteria graphica
- Drasteria habibazel
- Drasteria hastingsii
- Drasteria herzi
- Drasteria howlandii
- Drasteria hudsonica
- Drasteria hyblaeoides
- Drasteria inepta
- Drasteria ingeniculata
- Drasteria kabylaria
- Drasteria kusnezovi
- Drasteria langi
- Drasteria mirifica
- Drasteria mongoliensis
- Drasteria nephelostola
- Drasteria nicollae
- Drasteria nubicola
- Drasteria occulta
- Drasteria ochracea
- Drasteria oppia
- Drasteria oranensis
- Drasteria pallescens
- Drasteria parallela
- Drasteria perplexa
- Drasteria petricola
- Drasteria philippina
- Drasteria picta
- Drasteria pictoides
- Drasteria pseudopicta
- Drasteria pulchra
- Drasteria pulverosa
- Drasteria rada
- Drasteria sabulosa
- Drasteria saisani
- Drasteria scolopax
- Drasteria scrupulosa
- Drasteria sculpta
- Drasteria sequax
- Drasteria sesquilina
- Drasteria sesquistria
- Drasteria sinuosa
- Drasteria stretchii
- Drasteria tejonica
- Drasteria tenera
- Drasteria walshi
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