Syngrapha rectangula: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Syngrapha
- Species
- Syngrapha rectangula
- Scientific Name
- Syngrapha rectangula
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Syngrapha rectangula
Syngrapha rectangula, the salt and pepper looper or angulated cutworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by William Kirby in 1837. It is found in North America from Newfoundland, Quebec, northern Ontario to Manitoba, New Jersey, northern Pennsylvania, southern Michigan, northern Wisconsin, North Carolina, Virginia, British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, northern Idaho and the Cascades (Washington and Oregon).
The wingspan is 32–35 mm. The moth flies from July to August depending on the location.
The larvae feed on Abies balsamea, Tsuga heterophylla, Picea glauca and Pseudotsuga menziesii.
...Syngrapha rectangula in languages:
- English
- Salt-and-pepper Looper 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































































































































































