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Preferred larval host is Aralia spinosa. Larvae bore above ground into new stem growth. (Quinter E.L., McBride A.E. (2025) The Moths of North America.)
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| Papaipema araliae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Tribe: | Apameini |
| Genus: | Papaipema |
| Species: | P. araliae
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| Binomial name | |
| Papaipema araliae Bird & Jones, 1921
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Papaipema araliae, known generally as the aralia shoot borer moth or hedge veronica, is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.[1][2][3]
The MONA or Hodges number for Papaipema araliae is 9470.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Papaipema araliae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Papaipema araliae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Papaipema araliae species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Papaipema araliae". Retrieved 2019-09-23.
Further reading
[edit]- Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 127–47. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.
- Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2015). "Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico, III". ZooKeys (527): 227–236. doi:10.3897/zookeys.527.6151. PMC 4668890. PMID 26692790.
- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.