Drasteria pallescens

Drasteria pallescens, the cowhead arches, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1866.[1] It is found in North America from Alberta and Saskatchewan south to Texas and Baja California.

Drasteria pallescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Drasteria
Species:
D. pallescens
Binomial name
Drasteria pallescens
(Grote & Robinson, 1866)
Synonyms
  • Aedia pallescens Grote & Robinson, 1866
  • Melipotis tenella H. Edwards, 1881
  • Synedoida pallescens (Grote & Robinson, 1866)

The wingspan is about 35 mm. Adults are on wing in June in the north. Probably earlier southward.

References

  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Drasteria pallescens (Grote & Robinson 1866)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.


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