Syngrapha octoscripta: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Syngrapha
- Species
- Syngrapha octoscripta
- Scientific Name
- Syngrapha octoscripta
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Syngrapha octoscripta
Syngrapha octoscripta, the figure-eight looper moth or dusky silver Y, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1874. It is found in North America from coast to coast in most of Canada south in the east to northern Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the Great Lakes states.
The wingspan is 34–36 mm. Adults are on wing from July to August depending on the location. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on Vaccinium species.
...Syngrapha octoscripta in languages:
- English
- Dusky Silver Y Moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Syngrapha abstrusa
- Syngrapha ain
- Syngrapha alaica
- Syngrapha alias
- Syngrapha altera
- Syngrapha alticola
- Syngrapha angulidens
- Syngrapha borea
- Syngrapha celsa
- Syngrapha composita
- Syngrapha cryptica
- Syngrapha devergens
- Syngrapha diasema
- Syngrapha epigaea
- Syngrapha grosmornensis
- Syngrapha hochenwarthi
- Syngrapha ignea
- Syngrapha interrogationis
- Syngrapha microgamma
- Syngrapha montana
- Syngrapha octoscripta
- Syngrapha orophila
- Syngrapha ottolenguii
- Syngrapha parilis
- Syngrapha rectangula
- Syngrapha rilaecacuminum
- Syngrapha sackenii
- Syngrapha selecta
- Syngrapha surena
- Syngrapha tibetana
- Syngrapha u-aureum
- Syngrapha venustula
- Syngrapha viridisigma































































































































































