en Psammopolia arietis

Psammopolia arietis
	Male
	Female
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Psammopolia
Species:	P. arietis
Binomial name
	Psammopolia arietis; (Grote, 1879)
Synonyms
	Mamestra arietis Grote, 1879 ; Lasionycta arietis McDunnough, 1938 ; Anarta etacta Smith in Dyar, 1900 ;

Psammopolia arietis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It occurs on Pacific Coast sand beaches from Mendocino, California to south-western Alaska. It is absent from the inland Strait of Georgia.^[1]

Adults are on wing from late July to early September.

The larvae live in sand dunes and feed on Lathyrus littoralis, Polygonum paronychia, Abronia latifolia and an unspecified grass.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Crabo, Lars; Lafontaine, Donald (2009-12-18). "A Revision of Lasionycta Aurivillius (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) for North America and notes on Eurasian species, with descriptions of 17 new species, 6 new subspecies, a new genus, and two new species of Tricholita Grote". ZooKeys (30): 1–156. Bibcode:2009ZooK...30....1C. doi:10.3897/zookeys.30.308. ISSN 1313-2970.
^ "PNW Moths | Psammopolia arietis". pnwmoths.biol.wwu.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-26.

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[:0-1] Crabo, Lars; Lafontaine, Donald (2009-12-18). "A Revision of Lasionycta Aurivillius (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) for North America and notes on Eurasian species, with descriptions of 17 new species, 6 new subspecies, a new genus, and two new species of Tricholita Grote". ZooKeys (30): 1–156. Bibcode:2009ZooK...30....1C. doi:10.3897/zookeys.30.308. ISSN 1313-2970.

[2] "PNW Moths | Psammopolia arietis". pnwmoths.biol.wwu.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-26.

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