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Amphipyra glabella

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2022
Entity authorityQ4748344 ↗
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Amphipyra glabella, the grey amphipyra or smooth amphipyra, is a moth in the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Herbert Knowles Morrison in 1874. It is found in the Eastern parts of the United States and Canada.

The wingspan is 33–40 mm. Adults are on wing from August to September depending on the location. There is one generation per year.

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The public source identifies “Amphipyra glabella” as species of insect. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Amphipyra, glabella and species.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q4748344. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1874.

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This entry incorporates text from “Amphipyra glabella” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.