Psammopolia wyatti

Psammopolia wyatti is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1926. It occurs in western North America from southern Oregon to the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia.[1] The moth has been included in both 1983 and 2010 MONA indices.[2]

Psammopolia wyatti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Noctuidae[1]
Genus:
Psammopolia
Species:
P. wyatti
Binomial name
Psammopolia wyatti
Synonyms
  • Polia wyatti (Barnes & Benjamin, 1926)
  • Lasionycta wyatti (McDunnough, 1938)

Adults fly over sand beaches, are nocturnal, and come to light.

Adults are on wing from late May to early September.

The larvae feed on Polygonum paronychia, Abronia latifolia, Tanacetum camphoratum and grass.

References
  1. Pohl GR, Cannings RA, Landry JF, Holden DG, Scudder GE (2015). "Section 3. Macromoths, 70. Noctuidae (owlet moths)". Checklist of the Lepidoptera of British Columbia, Canada. Entomological Society of British Columbia Occasional Paper No. 3. pp. 150, 158, 168. ISBN 978-1-4834-3519-0 – via Internet Archive.
  2. Lafontaine JD, Schmidt BC (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico" (PDF). ZooKeys. Pensoft. 40: 1–239.


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