- Source: Agrotis photophila
- Agrotis photophila
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Agrotis photophila, the light-loving noctuid moth, is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, United States.
This moth was last reported around 1900. Two dead specimens are preserved in the British Museum. These had been collected near Honolulu in the 19th century. At that time the species was already rare.
These dead specimens have been described thus:
35—40 mm. Antennae in ,? bidentate with long triangular processes. Fore-
wings light greyish-ochreous sprinkled with fuscous ; subbasal, first, and second lines
indicated by more or less distinct blackish dots, first and second sometimes forming
undefined waved lines ; posterior edge of reniform sometimes indicated by black
scales ; traces of a darker praesubterminal shade ; a terminal series of dark fuscous
dots. Hindwings light greyish-ochreous, posteriorly infuscated.
References
Hawaii extinct species