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Kerr's noctuid moth

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Noctuidae

Scientific name
  
Agrotis kerri

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Agrotis

Rank
  
Species

Kerr's noctuid moth

Similar
  
Midway noctuid moth, Laysan noctuid moth, Poko noctuid moth

Kerr's noctuid moth (Agrotis kerri) was a species of moth in the Noctuidae family. It is now extinct.

This moth was endemic to the French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

The larvae have been recorded on Boerhaavia tetrandra and Poriulaca oleracea. The caterpillar had a length of about 50 mm when full-grown. It resembled the caterpillar of Agrotis crinigera except that the head was paler and almost entirely pale yellowish testaceous with a slender black line along the paraclypeal suture, where A. crinigera has quite a wide blackish mark. The cervical shield is also paler than that of A. crinigera.

References

Kerr's noctuid moth Wikipedia