''Agrotis'' is a

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moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

s of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by

Ferdinand Ochsenheimer Ferdinand Ochsenheimer (17 March 1767 – 2 November 1822) was a German stage actor, actor and entomologist (lepidopterist). Life Ochsenheimer was born and brought up in Mainz (then in the Electorate of Mainz) and began to show an interest in ...

in 1816. A number of the species of this genus are extinct.

Description

The proboscis is well developed. Palpi obliquely porrect (extending forward), where the second joint evenly scaled and third joint prominent. Thorax and abdomen without tufts. Abdomen somewhat flattened. Tibia very strongly spined. Forewings with non-crenulate outer margin. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 from cell.

Ecology

Many of the species are of great importance as

cutworm Cutworms are moth larvae that hide under litter or soil during the day, coming out in the dark to feed on plants. A larva typically attacks the first part of the plant it encounters, namely the stem, often of a seedling, and consequently cuts it ...

s, major agricultural pests whose

larva A larva (; plural larvae ) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle. ...

e hide by day and emerge at night to feed. The name ''cutworm'' refers to the habit of the larvae, of cutting down and partly eating garden and crop plants, especially seedlings. Not all cutworms are in the genus ''Agrotis'', though it may well be the genus that includes the largest number of cutworm species, and the most agriculturally important cutworm species. The

bogong moth The bogong moth (''Agrotis infusa'') is a temperate species of night-flying moth, notable for its biannual long-distance seasonal migrations towards and from the Australian Alps, similar to the diurnal monarch butterfly. During the autumn an ...

, itself a cutworm, also has been of importance as a seasonal food for humans, valued by indigenous Australians.

Species

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Agrotis admirationis ''Agrotis admirationis'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. It was first described by Achille Guenée Achille Guenée (sometimes M.A. Guenée; 1 January 1809 – 30 December 1880) was a French lawyer and entomolog ...

'' Guenée, 1868 * ''

Agrotis alexandriensis ''Agrotis alexandriensis'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the coastal dunes and saline deserts along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea from Tunisia to Egypt. It was also recorded from the sand dunes of the Southern Coastal Pla ...

'' Baker, 1894 * '' Agrotis alpestris'' Boisduval, 1837 * ''

Agrotis alticaffer ''Agrotis alticaffer'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Krüger in 2005. It is endemic to Lesotho Lesotho ( ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a country landlocked as an enclave in South Africa. It is situated in t ...

'' Krüger, 2005 * ''

Agrotis altivagans ''Agrotis'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816. A number of the species of this genus are extinct. Description The proboscis is well developed. Palpi obliquely porrect (exten ...

'' (Varga, 1979) * ''

Agrotis antica ''Agrotis antica'' is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family of moths. They are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily ...

'' Crabo & Lafontaine, 2004 * ''

Agrotis apicalis ''Agrotis apicalis'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1868. It is found in Florida, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Cuba. The wingspan The wingspan (or just sp ...

'' Herrich-Schäffer, 1868 * ''

Agrotis amphora ''Agrotis amphora'' is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Kashmir Kashmir () is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Ka ...

'' Hampson, 1903 * ''

Agrotis andina ''Agrotis andina'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Maule Region and Biobío Region of Chile as well as the Tucumán Province of Argentina. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distanc ...

'' (Köhler, 1945) * ''

Agrotis araucaria ''Agrotis araucaria'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Concepción region of Chile as well as the Neuquén Province of Argentina. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from o ...

'' (Hampson, 1903) * ''

Agrotis arenarius ''Agrotis arenarius'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to Sable Island, Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the fou ...

'' Neil, 1983 * ''

Agrotis arenivolans ''Agrotis arenivolans'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to Maui, East Maui and Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. ...

'' Butler, 1879 * ''

Agrotis atrux ''Agrotis'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816. A number of the species of this genus are extinct. Description The proboscis is well developed. Palpi obliquely porrect (exten ...

'' Pinker, 1971 * ''

Agrotis aulacias ''Agrotis aulacias'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1899. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Maui. External links

* Agrotis Endemic moths of Hawaii Moths described in 1899 {{Agrotis-st ...

'' Meyrick, 1899 * ''

Agrotis baliopa ''Agrotis baliopa'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to Maui, East Maui and Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It i ...

'' Meyrick, 1899 * ''

Agrotis bilitura ''Agrotis bilitura'', the potato cutworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from the Tarapacá Region to the Magallanes Region and the Juan Fernández Islands in Chile, Argentina, Huánuco Region in Peru and Uruguay. The wingspan ...

'' Guenée, 1852 * ''

Agrotis bigramma ''Agrotis bigramma'', the great dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1790. It is found from along the southern shores of the Baltic Sea to China, the Levant and North Afr ...

'' (Esper, 1790) * '' Agrotis boetica'' (Boisduval, 1837) * '' Agrotis bosqui'' (Köhler, 1945) * '' Agrotis brachystria'' (Hampson 1903) * '' Agrotis brachypecten'' Hampson, 1899 * '' Agrotis bryani'' Swezey, 1926 * '' Agrotis buchholzi'' Barnes & Benjamin, 1929 (syn: ''Agrotis carolina'' Schweitzer & McCabe, 2004) * '' Agrotis caffer'' (Hampson, 1903) * '' Agrotis canities'' (Grote, 1902) * '' Agrotis ceramophaea'' Meyrick, 1899 * '' Agrotis characteristica'' Alphéraky, 1892 * '' Agrotis charmocrita'' (Meyrick, 1928) * '' Agrotis chretieni'' Dumont, 1903 * '' Agrotis cinerea'' Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 – light feathered rustic moth * ''

Agrotis clavis The heart and club (''Agrotis clavis'') is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout the Palearctic realm. The common name of this species refers to the supposed shapes of the bold dark stigmata on the usually pale forewing ...

'' Hufnagel, 1766 – heart-and-club moth * ''

Agrotis consentanea ''Agrotis consentanea'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found on Madagascar and on the islands of the Cosmoledo atoll (Seychelles Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seyche ...

'' Mabille, 1880 * ''

Agrotis coquimbensis ''Agrotis coquimbensis'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Coquimbo Region of Chile. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, t ...

'' (Hampson, 1903) * '' Agrotis crassa'' Hübner, 1803 * †'' Agrotis cremata'' Butler, 1880 – Maui agrotis noctuid moth * †'' Agrotis crinigera'' Butler, 1881 – poko noctuid moth, larger Hawaiian cutworm moth * '' Agrotis cursoriodes'' (Hampson, 1903) * '' Agrotis daedalus'' Smith, 1890 * '' Agrotis desertorum'' Boisduval, 1840 * '' Agrotis dislocata'' Walker, 1856 * '' Agrotis dissociata'' Staudinger, 1899 * '' Agrotis edmondsi'' Butler, 1882 * ''

Agrotis emboloma ''Agrotis emboloma'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land ...

'' Lower, 1918 * '' Agrotis endogaea'' Boisduval, 1837 * '' Agrotis epicremna'' Meyrick, 1899 * '' Agrotis eremata'' (Butler, 1880) * '' Agrotis evanescens'' Rothschild 1894 * ''

Agrotis exclamationis The heart and dart (''Agrotis exclamationis'') is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. A familiar moth to many, it is considered one of the most commo ...

'' Linnaeus, 1758 – heart-and-dart moth * ''

Agrotis experta ''Agrotis experta'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Tarapacá Region, Tarapacá and Antofagasta Region, Antofagasta regions of Chile and the Callao District of Peru. The wingspan is 40–60 mm. Adults are on wing from A ...

'' (Walker, 1869) * †'' Agrotis fasciata'' Hübner, 1824 – Midway noctuid moth * '' Agrotis fatidica'' Hübner, 1824 * '' Agrotis fortunata'' Draudt, 1938 * '' Agrotis frosya'' Pekarsky, 2014 TL: Bering Island * ''

Agrotis giffardi ''Agrotis giffardi'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was first described by Otto Herman Swezey in 1932. It is endemic to the island of Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the P ...

'' (Swezey, 1932) * '' Agrotis gladiaria'' Morrison, 1875 – swordsman dart moth, clay-backed cutworm moth * '' Agrotis graslini'' Rambur, 1848 * '' Agrotis gravis'' Grote, 1874 * '' Agrotis gypaetina'' Guenée, 1852 * '' Agrotis haesitans'' Walker, 1857 * '' Agrotis haifae'' Staudinger, 1897 * '' Agrotis hephaestaea'' (Meyrick, 1899) * '' Agrotis herzogi'' Rebel, 1911 * '' Agrotis hispidula'' Guenée, 1852 * '' Agrotis incognita'' Staudinger, 1888 * '' Agrotis inconsequens'' Rothschild, 1920 * ''

Agrotis infusa The bogong moth (''Agrotis infusa'') is a temperate species of night-flying moth, notable for its biannual long-distance seasonal migrations towards and from the Australian Alps, similar to the diurnal monarch butterfly. During the autumn an ...

'' Boisduval, 1832 – bogong * '' Agrotis innominata'' Hudson, 1898 * '' Agrotis interjectionis'' Guénée, 1852 * ''

Agrotis ipsilon ''Agrotis ipsilon'', the dark sword-grass, black cutworm, greasy cutworm, floodplain cutworm or ipsilon dart, is a small noctuid moth found worldwide. The moth gets its scientific name from black markings on its forewings shaped like the letter ...

'' Hufnagel, 1766 – ipsilon dart moth, dark sword-grass moth * ''

Agrotis iremeli ''Agrotis'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816. A number of the species of this genus are extinct. Description The proboscis is well developed. Palpi obliquely porrect (extend ...

'' Nupponen, Ahola & Kullberg, 2001 * †'' Agrotis kerri'' Swezey, 1920 – Kerr's noctuid moth * '' Agrotis kinabaluensis'' Holloway, 1976 * '' Agrotis kingi'' McDunnough, 1932 * '' Agrotis lanzarotensis'' Rebel, 1894 (syn: ''Agrotis selvagensis'' Pinker & Bacallado, 1978) * '' Agrotis lasserrei'' (Oberthür, 1881) * '' Agrotis lata'' Treitschke, 1835 * †'' Agrotis laysanensis'' Rothschild, 1894 – Laysan noctuid moth * ''

Agrotis longicornis ''Agrotis'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816. A number of the species of this genus are extinct. Description The proboscis is well developed. Palpi obliquely porrect (exten ...

'' Lafontaine & Troubridge, 2004 * '' Agrotis longidentifera'' (Hampson, 1903) * '' Agrotis luehri'' Mentzer & Moberg, 1987 * ''

Agrotis magnipunctata ''Agrotis magnipunctata'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to Buru and Seram Seram (formerly spelled Ceram; also Seran or Serang) is the largest and main island of Maluku province of Indonesia, despite Ambon Island's historica ...

'' Prout, 1922 * '' Agrotis malefida'' Guénée, 1852 – rascal dart moth, pale-sided cutworm moth * '' Agrotis manifesta'' Morrison, 1875 * '' Agrotis margelanoides'' (Boursin, 1944) * †''

Agrotis melanoneura ''Agrotis melanoneura'' (black-veined agrotis noctuid moth) was a moth in the family Noctuidae. It is now an extinct species. Before its extinction within the last century, it was endemic to Hawaii, United States The United States of Ame ...

'' Meyrick, 1899Zipcodezoo ''Agrotis melanoneura''
– black-veined agrotis noctuid moth * ''

Agrotis mayrorum ''Agrotis'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816. A number of the species of this genus are extinct. Description The proboscis is well developed. Palpi obliquely porrect (exten ...

'' Ronkay & Huemer, 2018 * '' Agrotis mazeli'' Ronkay & Huemer, 2018 * '' Agrotis mesotoxa'' Meyrick, 1899 * †'' Agrotis microreas'' Meyrick, 1899 – microreas agrotis noctuid moth * '' Agrotis militaris'' Staudinger, 1888 (syn: ''Rhyacia furushonis'' Matsumura, 1925) * '' Agrotis mollis'' Walker, 1857 * '' Agrotis munda'' Walker, 1857 – brown cutworm moth, pink cutworm moth * '' Agrotis obesa'' Boisduval, 1829 * '' Agrotis obliqua'' Smith, 1903 * ''

Agrotis orthogonia ''Agrotis orthogonia'', the pale western cutworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Herbert Knowles Morrison in 1876. It is found in North America, more specifically dry, semi-desert areas of western North Am ...

'' Morrison, 1876 – pale western cutworm moth * †'' Agrotis panoplias'' Meyrick, 1899 – Kona agrotis noctuid moth * '' Agrotis patricei'' Viette, 1959 * '' Agrotis perigramma'' Meyrick, 1899 * †'' Agrotis photophila'' Butler, 1879 – light-loving noctuid moth * '' Agrotis pierreti'' (Bugnion, 1837) * '' Agrotis plumiger'' Krüger, 2005 * '' Agrotis poliophaea'' Turner, 1926 * ''

Agrotis poliotis ''Agrotis poliotis'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Northern Territory of Queensland and Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land ...

'' Hampson, 1903 * '' Agrotis porphyricollis'' Guénée, 1852 – variable cutworm moth * †'' Agrotis procellaris'' Meyrick, 1900 – procellaris grotis noctuid moth * '' Agrotis psammocharis'' Boursin, 1950 * '' Agrotis psammophaea'' Meyrick, 1899 * ''

Agrotis puta ''Agrotis puta'', the shuttle-shaped dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1803. It is common in the western part of Europe, but is also found in southern and central Europe, as well as Nort ...

'' Hübner, 1803 – shuttle-shaped dart moth * '' Agrotis radians'' Guénée, 1852 * '' Agrotis rileyana'' (Morrison, 1875) * ''

Agrotis ripae ''Agrotis ripae'', the sand dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1823. It is found in western Europe and North Africa and extends east across the Palearctic to steppe areas in Russia, Mongol ...

'' Hübner, 1823 – sand dart moth * ''

Agrotis robustior ''Agrotis robustior'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Smith in 1899. It is found on the northern Great Plains of North America, the Prairie Provinces of Canada southward to South Dakota and Colorado. The wingspan The w ...

'' Smith, 1899 * '' Agrotis ruta'' Eversmann, 1851 * '' Agrotis sabulosa'' Rambur, 1839 * ''

Agrotis sardzeana ''Agrotis sardzeana'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the eremic zone from North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula to Pakistan and India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is t ...

'' Brandt, 1941 * '' Agrotis schawerdai'' Bytinski-Salz, 1937 * '' Agrotis scruposa'' (Draudt, 1936) * ''

Agrotis segetum ''Agrotis segetum'', sometimes known as the turnip moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is a common European species and it is found in Africa and across ...

'' Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 – turnip moth * '' Agrotis sesamioides'' Rebel, 1907 * '' Agrotis simplonia'' Geyer, 1832 * '' Agrotis spinifera'' Hübner, 1808 – Gregson's dart moth * '' Agrotis stenibergmani'' (Bryk, 1941) (syn: ''Rhyacia stenibergmani poverina'' Bryk, 1942) * '' Agrotis stigmosa'' Morrison, 1875 * '' Agrotis striata'' Lafontaine, 2004 * ''

Agrotis subalba ''Agrotis subalba'', the grey cutworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1857. It is found in South Africa. It is considered a pest on ''Zea mays'' (corn or maize) and ''Lycopersicon escule ...

'' Walker, 1857 * '' Agrotis submolesta'' Püngeler, 8991900 * '' Agrotis syricola'' Corti & Draudt, 1933 * ''

Agrotis taiwana ''Agrotis taiwana'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean ...

'' B.S.Chang, 1991 * '' Agrotis talda'' (Schaus & Clements, 1893) * †'' Agrotis tephrias'' Meyrick, 1899 – Kauai agrotis noctuid moth * '' Agrotis trifurca'' Eversmann, 1837 * '' Agrotis trifurcula'' Staudinger, 1892 * ''

Agrotis trux ''Agrotis trux'', the crescent dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1824. It has a circum-Mediterranean distribution and is found along the coasts of France, Ireland, England, southern Europ ...

'' Hübner, 1824 * '' Agrotis turatii'' Standfuss, 1888 * '' Agrotis turbans'' Staudinger, 1888 * '' Agrotis vancouverensis'' Grote, 1873 – Vancouver dart moth * '' Agrotis venerabilis'' Walker, 1857 – venerable dart moth, dusky cutworm moth * '' Agrotis vestigialis'' Hufnagel, 1766 – archer's dart * '' Agrotis vetusta'' Walker, 1865 – old man dart moth, spotted-legged cutworm moth, muted dart moth * ''

Agrotis villosus ''Agrotis'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816. A number of the species of this genus are extinct. Description The proboscis is well developed. Palpi obliquely porrect (exten ...

'' Alphéraky, 1887 * '' Agrotis volubilis'' Harvey, 1874 – voluble dart moth * ''

Agrotis xiphias ''Agrotis xiphias'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1899. It is endemic to the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Maui The island of Maui (; Hawaiian: ) is the second-largest of the islands of the st ...

'' Meyrick, 1899 * ''

Agrotis yelai ''Agrotis yelai'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = '' Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: ...

'' Fibiger, 1990

Until recently placed here

* ''Agrotis dolli'' is now '' Eucoptocnemis dolli'' (Grote, 1882) * ''Agrotis repleta'' is now '' Feltia repleta'' (Walker, 1857) * ''Agrotis subterranea'' – tawny shoulder, granulate cutworm is now '' Feltia subterranea'' (Fabricius, 1794)

References

* Pekarsky, O. (2014). "Contribution to the knowledge of Noctuidae fauna of Bering island." ''Fibigeriana supplement'': 2. 177–200 pp. color plates 299–304 pp. * Varga, Z. (1979). "Neue Noctuiden aus der Sammlung Vartian (Wien), II. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). ''Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen'' 31: 1-12.

External links

''Agrotis'' - Encyclopaedia of Life
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