Apamea is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.[1]
Some Apamea species are pest insects. The larval Apamea niveivenosa is a cutworm known as a pest of grain crops in North America.[2] The larva of A. apamiformis is the rice worm, the most serious insect pest of cultivated wild rice in the Upper Midwest of the United States.[3]
Selected species
- Apamea acera (Smith, 1900)
- Apamea albina (Grote, 1874)
- Apamea alia (Guenée, 1852)
- Apamea alpigena (Boisduval, [1837])
- Apamea alticola (Smith, 1891)
- Apamea altijuga (Kozhantshikov, 1925)
- Apamea amputatrix (Fitch, 1857) – yellow-headed cutworm
- Apamea anceps (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – large nutmeg
- Apamea antennata (Smith, 1891)
- Apamea apamiformis (Guenée, 1852) – rice worm, wild rice worm
- Apamea aquila Donzel, 1837
- Apamea arabs (Oberthür, 1881)
- Apamea assimilis (Doubleday, 1847)
- Apamea atriclava (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913)
- Apamea atrosuffusa (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913) (syn. A. grotei (Barnes & McDunnough, 1914))
- Apamea auranticolor (Grote, 1873)
- Apamea baischi Hacker, 1989
- Apamea barbara (Berio, 1940)
- Apamea basimacula Boisduval, 1833
- Apamea bernardino Mikkola & Mustelin 2000
- Apamea boopis (Hampson, 1908)
- Apamea brunnea (Leech, 1900)
- Apamea brunnescens Kononenko, 1985
- Apamea burgessi (Morrison, 1874)
- Apamea caesia Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998
- Apamea cariosa (Guenée, 1852) – nondescript dagger moth
- Apamea centralis (Smith, 1891)
- Apamea chalybeata (Walker, 1865)
- Apamea chhiringi Hreblay, 1998
- Apamea chinensis (Leech, 1900)
- Apamea cinefacta (Grote, 1881)
- Apamea cogitata (Smith, 1891) – thoughtful apamea
- Apamea commixta (Butler, 1881)
- Apamea commoda (Walker, 1857) – southern Quaker
- Apamea commoda commoda (Walker, 1857)
- Apamea commoda parcata (Smith, 1903)
- Apamea commoda striolata Mikkola, 2009
- Apamea concinna (Leech, 1900)
- Apamea contradicta (Smith, 1895) – northern banded Quaker
- Apamea crenata Hufnagel, 1766 – clouded-bordered brindle
- Apamea cristata (Grote, 1878)
- Apamea cuculliformis (Grote, 1875)
- Apamea cyanea (Hampson, 1908)
- Apamea desegaulxi Viette, 1928
- Apamea devastator Brace, 1819 – glassy cutworm
- Apamea digitula Mikkola and Mustelin, 2006
- Apamea dubitans (Walker, 1856) – doubtful apamea
- Apamea epomidion (Haworth, 1809) – clouded brindle
- Apamea erythrographa Hreblay, Peregovits & Ronkay, 1999
- Apamea euxinia Hacker, 1985
- Apamea exstincta (Staudinger, 1892)
- Apamea fasciata (Leech, 1900)
- Apamea fergusoni Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009
- Apamea ferrago (Eversmann, 1837)
- Apamea fervida (Hampson, 1908)
- Apamea furva (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – the confused
- Apamea gabrieli Mikkola & Mustelin 2000
- Apamea ganeshi Hreblay, 1998
- Apamea gangtoki Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998
- Apamea geminimacula (Dyar, 1904)
- Apamea genialis (Grote, 1874)
- Apamea glenura (Swinhoe, 1895)
- Apamea glenurina Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999
- Apamea goateri Hacker, 2001
- Apamea goperma Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999
- Apamea gratissima Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999
- Apamea griveaudi Viette, 1967
- Apamea groenlandica (Duponchel, [1838])
- Apamea hampsoni Sugi, 1963
- Apamea heinickei Hreblay, 1998
- Apamea helva (Grote, 1875) – yellow three-spot
- Apamea illyria Freyer, 1846
- Apamea impedita (Christoph, 1887)
- Apamea impulsa (Guenée, 1852)
- Apamea indocilis (Walker, 1856) – ignorant apamea
- Apamea inebriata Ferguson, 1977 – drunk apamea
- Apamea inficita (Walker, 1857) – lined Quaker
- Apamea inordinata (Morrison, 1875)
- Apamea kaszabi Varga, 1982
- Apamea kumari Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999
- Apamea lateritia (Hufnagel, 1766) – scarce brindle
- Apamea leucodon (Eversmann, 1837)
- Apamea lieni Hreblay, 1998
- Apamea lignea (Butler, 1889)
- Apamea lignicolora (Guenée, 1852) – wood-coloured Quaker
- Apamea lintneri Grote, 1873
- Apamea lithoxylaea Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 – light arches
- Apamea longula (Grote, 1879)
- Apamea lutosa (Andrews, 1877) – opalescent apamea
- Apamea lysis (Fawcett, 1917)
- Apamea macronephra Berio, 1959
- Apamea magnirena (Boursin, 1943)
- Apamea maraschi (Draudt, 1934)
- Apamea maroccana (Zerny, 1934)
- Apamea maxima (Dyar, 1904)
- Apamea michielii Varga, 1976
- Apamea mikkolai Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998
- Apamea minnecii (Berio, 1939)
- Apamea minoica (Fibiger, Schmidt & Zilli, 2005)
- Apamea monoglypha Hufnagel, 1766 – dark arches
- Apamea nekrasovi Mikkola, Gyulai & Varga, 1997
- Apamea nigrior (Smith, 1891) – black-dashed apamea, dark apamea
- Apamea nigrostria Hreblay, Peregovits & Ronkay, 1999
- Apamea niveivenosa (Grote, 1879) – snowy-veined apamea
- Apamea nubila Moore, 1881
- Apamea obliviosa (Walker, 1858)
- Apamea oblonga (Haworth, 1809) – crescent striped
- Apamea occidens (Grote, 1878) – western apamea
- Apamea ontakensis Sugi, 1982
- Apamea ophiogramma Esper, 1793 – double lobed
- Apamea pallifera (Grote, 1877)
- Apamea permixta Kononenko, 2006[4]
- Apamea perpensa (Grote, 1881)
- Apamea perstriata (Hampson, 1908)
- Apamea platinea (Treitschke, 1825)
- Apamea plutonia (Grote, 1883) – dusky Quaker, dusky apamea
- Apamea polyglypha (Staudinger, 1892)
- Apamea pseudoaltijuga Grosser, 1985
- Apamea purpurina (Hampson, 1908)
- Apamea quinteri Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009
- Apamea rectificata Hreblay & Plante, 1995
- Apamea relicina (Morrison, 1875)
- Apamea relicina relicina (Morrison, 1875)
- Apamea relicina migrata (Smith, [1904])
- Apamea remissa Hübner, 1809 – dusky brocade
- Apamea reseri Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998
- Apamea robertsoni Mikkola and Mustelin, 2006
- Apamea roedereri Viette, 1976
- Apamea rubrirena (Treitschke, 1825)
- Apamea rufa (Draudt, 1950)
- Apamea rufomedialis (Marumo, 1920)
- Apamea rufus (Chang, 1991)
- Apamea sanyibaglya Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998
- Apamea schawerdae (Draeseke, 1928)
- Apamea scolopacina (Esper, 1788) – slender brindle
- Apamea scoparia Mikkola, Mustelin & Lafontaine, 2000
- Apamea shibuyoides Poole, 1989
- Apamea sicula (Turati, 1909)
- Apamea sinuata (Moore, 1882)
- Apamea siskiyou Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009
- Apamea smythi Franclemont, 1952
- Apamea sodalis (Butler, 1878)
- Apamea sora (Smith, 1903)
- Apamea sordens Hufnagel, 1766 – rustic shoulder-knot
- Apamea spaldingi (Smith, 1909) – Spalding's Quaker
- Apamea stagmatipennis (Dyar, 1920)
- Apamea striata Haruta & Sugi, 1958
- Apamea sublustris (Esper, [1788]) – reddish light arches
- Apamea submarginata (Leech, 1900)
- Apamea submediana (Draudt, 1950)
- Apamea superba (Turati, 1926)
- Apamea syriaca (Osthelder, 1932)
- Apamea tahoeensis Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009
- Apamea taiwana (Wileman, 1914)
- Apamea terranea (Butler, 1889)
- Apamea unanimis (Hübner, [1813]) – small clouded brindle
- Apamea unita (Smith, 1904)
- Apamea verbascoides (Guenée, 1852) – boreal apamea, mullein apamea
- Apamea veterina (Lederer, 1853)
- Apamea vicaria (Püngeler, 1902)
- Apamea vulgaris (Grote & Robinson, 1866) – common apamea
- Apamea vultuosa (Grote, 1875) – airy apamea
- Apamea walshi Lafontaine, 2009
- Apamea wasedana Sugi, 1982
- Apamea wikeri Quinter & Lafontaine, 2009
- Apamea xylodes Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009
- Apamea zeta (Treitschke, 1825)
Former species
- Apamea formosensis is now Leucapamea formosensis (Hampson, 1910)
- Apamea mixta is now Melanapamea mixta (Grote, 1881)
References
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Apamea Ochsenheimer, 1816". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
- ^ "Apamea niveivenosa". Pacific Northwest Moths.
- ^ Oelke, E. A. 1993. "Wild rice: Domestication of a native North American genus". p. 235-43. In: Janick, J. and J. E. Simon (eds.), New Crops. Wiley, New York.
- ^ Kononenko, V. (2006). Apamea permixta, sp. n., from China - the putative sister species of A. commixta (Butler) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Xyleninae: Apameini). Zootaxa 1371: 37-43.
Further reading
- Butler (1881). Transactions of Entomological Society of London 1881: 174.
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