Apamea (genus)

Apamea

Apamea lithoxylaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Subfamily:	Hadeninae
Tribe:	Apameini
Genus:	Apamea Ochsenheimer, 1816
Species
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Synonyms
Abromias Billberg, 1820 Agroperina Hampson, 1908 Agrostobia Boie, 1835 Crymodes Guenée, 1841 Dimya Moore, 1882 Eleemosia Prout, 1901 Eurabila Butler, 1889 Hama Stephens, 1829 Heteromma Warren, 1911 Heterommiola Strand, 1912 Ommatostola Grote, 1873 Protagrotis Hampson, 1903 Septis Hübner, 1821 Syma Stephens, 1850 Trichoplexia Hampson, 1908 Xylophasia Stephens, 1829

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Apamea is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae.

Some Apamea are pest insects. The larval Apamea niveivenosa is a cutworm known as a pest of grain crops in North America. The larva of A. apamiformis is the rice worm, the most serious insect pest of cultivated wild rice in the Upper Midwest of the United States.