Apamea is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.[1]

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Apamea
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Apamea lithoxylaea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Noctuinae
Tribe: Apameini
Genus: Apamea
Ochsenheimer, 1816
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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Some Apamea species are pest insects. The larval Apamea niveivenosa is a cutworm known as a pest of grain crops in North America.[2] 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.[3]

Selected species

  • Apamea acera (Smith, 1900)
  • Apamea albina (Grote, 1874)
  • Apamea alia (Guenée, 1852)
  • Apamea alpigena (Boisduval, [1837])
  • Apamea alticola (Smith, 1891)
  • Apamea altijuga (Kozhantshikov, 1925)
  • Apamea amputatrix (Fitch, 1857) yellow-headed cutworm
  • Apamea anceps (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) large nutmeg
  • Apamea antennata (Smith, 1891)
  • Apamea apamiformis (Guenée, 1852) rice worm, wild rice worm
  • Apamea aquila Donzel, 1837
  • Apamea arabs (Oberthür, 1881)
  • Apamea assimilis (Doubleday, 1847)
  • Apamea atriclava (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913)
  • Apamea atrosuffusa (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913) (syn. A. grotei (Barnes & McDunnough, 1914))
  • Apamea auranticolor (Grote, 1873)
  • Apamea baischi Hacker, 1989
  • Apamea barbara (Berio, 1940)
  • Apamea basimacula Boisduval, 1833
  • Apamea bernardino Mikkola & Mustelin 2000
  • Apamea boopis (Hampson, 1908)
  • Apamea brunnea (Leech, 1900)
  • Apamea brunnescens Kononenko, 1985
  • Apamea burgessi (Morrison, 1874)
  • Apamea caesia Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998
  • Apamea cariosa (Guenée, 1852) nondescript dagger moth
  • Apamea centralis (Smith, 1891)
  • Apamea chalybeata (Walker, 1865)
  • Apamea chhiringi Hreblay, 1998
  • Apamea chinensis (Leech, 1900)
  • Apamea cinefacta (Grote, 1881)
  • Apamea cogitata (Smith, 1891) thoughtful apamea
  • Apamea commixta (Butler, 1881)
  • Apamea commoda (Walker, 1857) southern Quaker
    • Apamea commoda commoda (Walker, 1857)
    • Apamea commoda parcata (Smith, 1903)
    • Apamea commoda striolata Mikkola, 2009
  • Apamea concinna (Leech, 1900)
  • Apamea contradicta (Smith, 1895) northern banded Quaker
  • Apamea crenata Hufnagel, 1766 clouded-bordered brindle
  • Apamea cristata (Grote, 1878)
  • Apamea cuculliformis (Grote, 1875)
  • Apamea cyanea (Hampson, 1908)
  • Apamea desegaulxi Viette, 1928
  • Apamea devastator Brace, 1819 glassy cutworm
  • Apamea digitula Mikkola and Mustelin, 2006
  • Apamea dubitans (Walker, 1856) doubtful apamea
  • Apamea epomidion (Haworth, 1809) clouded brindle
  • Apamea erythrographa Hreblay, Peregovits & Ronkay, 1999
  • Apamea euxinia Hacker, 1985
  • Apamea exstincta (Staudinger, 1892)
  • Apamea fasciata (Leech, 1900)
  • Apamea fergusoni Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009
  • Apamea ferrago (Eversmann, 1837)
  • Apamea fervida (Hampson, 1908)
  • Apamea furva (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) the confused
  • Apamea gabrieli Mikkola & Mustelin 2000
  • Apamea ganeshi Hreblay, 1998
  • Apamea gangtoki Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998
  • Apamea geminimacula (Dyar, 1904)
  • Apamea genialis (Grote, 1874)
  • Apamea glenura (Swinhoe, 1895)
  • Apamea glenurina Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999
  • Apamea goateri Hacker, 2001
  • Apamea goperma Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999
  • Apamea gratissima Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999
  • Apamea griveaudi Viette, 1967
  • Apamea groenlandica (Duponchel, [1838])
  • Apamea hampsoni Sugi, 1963
  • Apamea heinickei Hreblay, 1998
  • Apamea helva (Grote, 1875) yellow three-spot
  • Apamea illyria Freyer, 1846
  • Apamea impedita (Christoph, 1887)
  • Apamea impulsa (Guenée, 1852)
  • Apamea indocilis (Walker, 1856) ignorant apamea
  • Apamea inebriata Ferguson, 1977 drunk apamea
  • Apamea inficita (Walker, 1857) lined Quaker
  • Apamea inordinata (Morrison, 1875)
  • Apamea kaszabi Varga, 1982
  • Apamea kumari Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999
  • Apamea lateritia (Hufnagel, 1766) scarce brindle
  • Apamea leucodon (Eversmann, 1837)
  • Apamea lieni Hreblay, 1998
  • Apamea lignea (Butler, 1889)
  • Apamea lignicolora (Guenée, 1852) wood-coloured Quaker
  • Apamea lintneri Grote, 1873
  • Apamea lithoxylaea Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 light arches
  • Apamea longula (Grote, 1879)
  • Apamea lutosa (Andrews, 1877) opalescent apamea
  • Apamea lysis (Fawcett, 1917)
  • Apamea macronephra Berio, 1959
  • Apamea magnirena (Boursin, 1943)
  • Apamea maraschi (Draudt, 1934)
  • Apamea maroccana (Zerny, 1934)
  • Apamea maxima (Dyar, 1904)
  • Apamea michielii Varga, 1976
  • Apamea mikkolai Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998
  • Apamea minnecii (Berio, 1939)
  • Apamea minoica (Fibiger, Schmidt & Zilli, 2005)
  • Apamea monoglypha Hufnagel, 1766 dark arches
  • Apamea nekrasovi Mikkola, Gyulai & Varga, 1997
  • Apamea nigrior (Smith, 1891) black-dashed apamea, dark apamea
  • Apamea nigrostria Hreblay, Peregovits & Ronkay, 1999
  • Apamea niveivenosa (Grote, 1879) snowy-veined apamea
  • Apamea nubila Moore, 1881
  • Apamea obliviosa (Walker, 1858)
  • Apamea oblonga (Haworth, 1809) crescent striped
  • Apamea occidens (Grote, 1878) western apamea
  • Apamea ontakensis Sugi, 1982
  • Apamea ophiogramma Esper, 1793 double lobed
  • Apamea pallifera (Grote, 1877)
  • Apamea permixta Kononenko, 2006[4]
  • Apamea perpensa (Grote, 1881)
  • Apamea perstriata (Hampson, 1908)
  • Apamea platinea (Treitschke, 1825)
  • Apamea plutonia (Grote, 1883) dusky Quaker, dusky apamea
  • Apamea polyglypha (Staudinger, 1892)
  • Apamea pseudoaltijuga Grosser, 1985
  • Apamea purpurina (Hampson, 1908)
  • Apamea quinteri Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009
  • Apamea rectificata Hreblay & Plante, 1995
  • Apamea relicina (Morrison, 1875)
    • Apamea relicina relicina (Morrison, 1875)
    • Apamea relicina migrata (Smith, [1904])
  • Apamea remissa Hübner, 1809 dusky brocade
  • Apamea reseri Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998
  • Apamea robertsoni Mikkola and Mustelin, 2006
  • Apamea roedereri Viette, 1976
  • Apamea rubrirena (Treitschke, 1825)
  • Apamea rufa (Draudt, 1950)
  • Apamea rufomedialis (Marumo, 1920)
  • Apamea rufus (Chang, 1991)
  • Apamea sanyibaglya Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998
  • Apamea schawerdae (Draeseke, 1928)
  • Apamea scolopacina (Esper, 1788) slender brindle
  • Apamea scoparia Mikkola, Mustelin & Lafontaine, 2000
  • Apamea shibuyoides Poole, 1989
  • Apamea sicula (Turati, 1909)
  • Apamea sinuata (Moore, 1882)
  • Apamea siskiyou Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009
  • Apamea smythi Franclemont, 1952
  • Apamea sodalis (Butler, 1878)
  • Apamea sora (Smith, 1903)
  • Apamea sordens Hufnagel, 1766 rustic shoulder-knot
  • Apamea spaldingi (Smith, 1909) Spalding's Quaker
  • Apamea stagmatipennis (Dyar, 1920)
  • Apamea striata Haruta & Sugi, 1958
  • Apamea sublustris (Esper, [1788]) reddish light arches
  • Apamea submarginata (Leech, 1900)
  • Apamea submediana (Draudt, 1950)
  • Apamea superba (Turati, 1926)
  • Apamea syriaca (Osthelder, 1932)
  • Apamea tahoeensis Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009
  • Apamea taiwana (Wileman, 1914)
  • Apamea terranea (Butler, 1889)
  • Apamea unanimis (Hübner, [1813]) small clouded brindle
  • Apamea unita (Smith, 1904)
  • Apamea verbascoides (Guenée, 1852) boreal apamea, mullein apamea
  • Apamea veterina (Lederer, 1853)
  • Apamea vicaria (Püngeler, 1902)
  • Apamea vulgaris (Grote & Robinson, 1866) common apamea
  • Apamea vultuosa (Grote, 1875) airy apamea
  • Apamea walshi Lafontaine, 2009
  • Apamea wasedana Sugi, 1982
  • Apamea wikeri Quinter & Lafontaine, 2009
  • Apamea xylodes Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009
  • Apamea zeta (Treitschke, 1825)

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