A Turtle Head Borer Moth collected in Garrett Co., Maryland (9/10/1990).
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Preferred larval host is Chelone glabra. Also uses Verbena hastata. Larvae bore into stems and roots. (Quinter EL, McBride AE (2025) The Moths of North America.)
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A Turtle Head Borer Moth collected in Garrett Co., Maryland (9/10/1990).
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| Papaipema nepheleptena | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Papaipema |
| Species: | P. nepheleptena
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| Binomial name | |
| Papaipema nepheleptena (Dyar, 1908)
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Papaipema nepheleptena, the turtle head borer moth, is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae.[1][2][3][4][5] It is found in North America.[1]
The MONA or Hodges number for Papaipema nepheleptena is 9490.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Papaipema nepheleptena Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- ^ "Papaipema nepheleptena species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- ^ "Papaipema nepheleptena". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- ^ "Papaipema nepheleptena Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- ^ "Papaipema nepheleptena Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- ^ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Papaipema nepheleptena". Retrieved 2018-03-18.
Further reading
[edit]- Beadle, David; Leckie, Seabrooke (2012). Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 978-0547238487.
- Covell, Charles V. Jr. (2005). A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America. Special Publication Number 12. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 1-884549-21-7.
- Grote, Aug.R.; Robinson, C.T. (1868). List of the Lepidoptera of North America. American Entomological Society.
- Heppner, J.B. (2003). "Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and catalog" (PDF). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Areas. 17. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. ISSN 0066-8036. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- Hodges, Ronald W., ed. (1983). Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland. E.W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. ISBN 9780860960164.
- Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 1–239. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414. ISSN 1313-2989.
- Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2013). "Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (264): 227–236. doi:10.3897/zookeys.264.4443. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3668382. PMID 23730184.
- 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.
- Powell, Jerry A.; Opler, Paul A. (2009). Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520251977.