Drasteria petricola
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Tribe: | Melipotini |
| Genus: | Drasteria |
| Species: | D. petricola |
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| Drasteria petricola (Walker, 1858)[1] | |
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The Little Arches (Drasteria petricola) is a moth of the Erebidae family. It is found from Yukon and the Northwest Territories south to New Mexico in the Rocky mountains, east to Manitoba.
The wingspan is about 34 mm. Adults are on wing from May to July.
The larvae feed on Hedysarum species. Adults feed on the nectar of flowers, including mint in Utah.
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Subspecies
- Drasteria petricola petricola
- Drasteria petricola athabasca (Neumoegen, 1883) (mountains of British Columbia)
- Drasteria petricola crokeri (Barnes & Benjamin, 1924) (prairie populations)
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