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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subphylum
  
Hexapoda

Family
  
Noctuidae

Scientific name
  
Plusia putnami

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Plusia

Higher classification
  
Plusia

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Similar
  
Plusia, Plusia festucae, Noctuidae, Butterflies and moths, Autographa pulchrina

Plusia putnami (Lempke's gold spot or Putnam's looper moth) is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone, from Japan and eastern Siberia to Fennoscandia, Great Britain and France. In North America, it ranges from Newfoundland and Labrador to central Alaska and the interior of British Columbia, south to Pennsylvania, Washington, north-eastern California, and in the Rocky Mountains to Utah and Colorado.

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The wingspan is 32–42 mm. Adults are on wing from July to August in western Europe and from May to October in the northern parts of North America.

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Food plants of the larvae include Calamogrostis.

Subspecies

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  • Plusia putnami putnami (Newfoundland, Labrador to Pennsylvania, southern Canada to Alaska, Washington to northern California, Rocky Mountains)
  • Plusia putnami barbara (Morocco)
  • Plusia putnami festata (Far East, Altai mountains, Japan)
  • Plusia putnami gracilis (Europe, western Siberia)


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    References

    Plusia putnami Wikipedia