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Species
turnip moth
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyNoctuidae
Observations recorded227,012
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 192
- With media
- 48
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, NHMUK, FMNH, MNHN, NHMO
- Recorded in
- United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Norway
Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Agrotis segetum
- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Agrotis segetis
- Commons gallery
- Agrotis segetum
- taxon common name
- gråpudret jordfly
- short name
- A. segetum
- has host
- Tectona grandis
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Encyclopedic overview
Agrotis segetum, sometimes known as the turnip moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is a common European species and it is found in Africa and across Eurasia except for the northernmost parts.
It is a cutworm in the genus Agrotis, which possibly is the genus that includes the largest number of species of cutworms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agrotis segetum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.