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Golden looper moth
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Scientific classification
Synonyms
  • Plusia u-aureum Guenée, 1852
  • Plusia interrogationis var. grönlandica Staudinger, 1857
  • Plusia interrogationis var. arctica Möschler, 1884
  • Autographa pallida Ottolengui, 1902
  • Syngrapha octoscripta pallida
  • Plusia vaccinii H. Edwards, 1886
  • Syngrapha arctica
  • Syngrapha groenlandica

Syngrapha u-aureum, the golden looper moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from eastern Manitoba to Quebec, Labrador, southern Greenland, Newfoundland, northern Maine, northern New Hampshire and northern New York.

Syngrapha arctica
Syngrapha u-aureum female
Syngrapha groenlandica
Syngrapha u-aureum male

There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Vaccinium species.

Subspecies

There are two recognised subspecies:

  • Syngrapha u-aureum u-aureum
  • Syngrapha u-aureum vaccinii
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