Agrotis ipsilon (Hüfnagel, 1766: 416)

Joshi, Rahul, Raha, Angshuman, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Bhattacharyya, Kamalika & Singh, Navneet, 2025, A catalogue of Noctuidae Latreille, 1809 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India, Zootaxa 5669 (1), pp. 1-225 : 74

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5669.1.1

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038A3F16-1061-FFE4-FF0E-0D68FD3DF8BE

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scientific name

Agrotis ipsilon (Hüfnagel, 1766: 416)
status

 

27. Agrotis ipsilon (Hüfnagel, 1766: 416) View in CoL ( Phalaena )

TL: Berlin ( Germany, Europe)

= Noctua suffusa [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775: 80 (TL: Vienna ( Switzerland, Europe))

= Phalaena (Bombyx) idonea Cramer, 1780 View in CoL –1782 [1780]: 150, pl. 275, f. h (TL: New York ( USA))

= Bombyx spinula Esper, 1786 : pl. 63, f. 6–7 (TL: Europe)

= Phalaena (Bombyx) spinifera Villers, 1789: 174 (TL: France (Europe))

= Phalaena spinula Donovan, 1801: 52 View in CoL , pl. 345, f. 2–3 (preocc. Bombyx spinula Esper, 1786 )

= Bombyx spiniferus Haworth, 1803: 114 (TL: UK (Europe))

= Agrotis telifera Harris, 1841: 323 View in CoL (preocc. Agrotis telifera Donzel, 1837 View in CoL ) (TL: Massachusetts ( USA))

= Agrotis bipars Walker, [1857] View in CoL 1856: 334 (TL: Venezuela (South America))

= Agrotis frivola Wallengren, 1860: 169 View in CoL (TL: Montevideo [ Uruguay] (South America))

= Agrotis suffussa var. pepoli Bertolini, 1874: 139 View in CoL (TL: Bondeno ( Italy, Europe))

= Agrotis aureolum Schaus, 1898: 107 View in CoL (TL: Castro, Parana, Brasil (South America))

= Agrotis ypsilon View in CoL f. juncta Lucas, 1959: 204 TL: Meyendel

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal ( Chandra et al. 2019). Global: Africa ( Egypt, Namibia), Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Ecuador, Europe ( Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Turkey, UK), Galapagos, Indonesia ( Moluccas), Israel, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Malaysia (Borneo), Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, New Hebrides, New Zealand, Russia, Pakistan, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, USA ( Chandra et al. 2019).

Remark: Worldwide two subspecies, Agrotis i. ipsilon , cosmopolitan in distribution, and A. i. aneituma (Walker, 1865) distributed in Indonesia and New Hebrides.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Agrotis

Loc

Agrotis ipsilon (Hüfnagel, 1766: 416)

Joshi, Rahul, Raha, Angshuman, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Bhattacharyya, Kamalika & Singh, Navneet 2025
2025
Loc

Agrotis ypsilon

Lucas, J. A. W. 1959: 204
1959
Loc

Agrotis aureolum

Schaus, W. 1898: 107
1898
Loc

Agrotis frivola

Wallengren, H. D. J. 1860: 169
1860
Loc

Phalaena spinula

Donovan, E. 1801: 52
1801
Loc

Phalaena (Bombyx) spinifera

de Villers, C. 1789: 174
1789
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