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Noctua pronuba

Large yellow underwing
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Noctua
Species: N. pronuba
Binomial name
Noctua pronuba
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena (Noctua) pronuba Linnaeus, 1758
  • Noctua connuba Hübner, [1822]
  • Triphaena innuba Treitschke, 1825
  • Triphaena pronuba var. hoegei Herrich-Schäffer, 1861
  • Agrotis pronuba var. nigra Krausse, 1912
  • Rhyacia pronuba f. decolorata Turati, 1923

The large yellow underwing (Noctua pronuba) is a moth, the type species for the family Noctuidae. It is an abundant species throughout the Palearctic ecozone, one of the most common and most familiar moths of the region. In some years the species is highly migratory with large numbers appearing suddenly in marginal parts of the range.

It is also present in Europe, North Africa, Canary Islands, Middle East, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, northwest India, Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast, Caucasus, Transcaucasia and Central Asia. It was introduced into North America at Nova Scotia. Since then it has increased its range considerably and has been recorded for Maine in 1985, and then spread throughout the northeast from Vermont and Massachusetts (1989) to New Hampshire (1990), New York, Maryland (1992), and Connecticut (1993). It was first recorded in Pennsylvania in 1998, North Carolina (1997) and west to Colorado (1999), Wyoming (2000), California (2001), British Columbia (2002) and Alaska (2005).


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