Ctenoplusia oxygramma

Ctenoplusia oxygramma (sharp stigma looper) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in southern Ontario, the eastern parts of the United States to Arizona. It has also been reported from Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Mexico, the Antilles and from California south to Brazil and India Argentina.

Ctenoplusia oxygramma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Ctenoplusia
Species:
C. oxygramma
Binomial name
Ctenoplusia oxygramma
(Geyer, 1832)
Synonyms
  • Autographa oxygramma Geyer, 1832
  • Plusia indigna Walker, [1858]
  • Plusia parallela Walker, [1858]
  • Plusia collateralis Herrich-Schäffer, 1868
  • Agrapha oxygramma

The wingspan is about 35 mm.

Recorded food plants include Aster, Erigeron canadensis, Nicotiana tabacum and Solidago.


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