Species Agrotis interjectionis Guenée, 1852

Museums

Regional Maps

• Agrotis interjectionis Guenée, A. 1852. Noctuélites I. In, Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 5 xcvi, 407 pp. [281].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Java, [Indonesia].
• Agrotis orbicularis Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 2. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 32: 322-706 [Date published April] [700].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Java, [Indonesia].
• Agrotis significans Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 2. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 32: 322-706 [Date published April] [700].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Java, [Indonesia].
• Euxoa vertenteni Hulstaert, 1923.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RMNH ♂, Okaba, [New Guinea, Indonesia].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Common, I.F.B. 1958. The Australian cutworms of the genus Agrotis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 6: 69-88, 3 pls [83]
• Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [331]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Larvae recorded as a pest of a wide range of tropical crops in South-East Asia, such as Saccharum officinarum and Zea mays (Poaceae), Elaeis guineensis (Arecaceae), Nicotiana tabacum (Solanaceae), Arachis hypogaea (Fabaceae), Sesamum (Pedaliaceae), Hibiscus sabdariffa and Gossypium (Malvaceae) and Allium (Alliaceae).

History of changes