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Agrotis simplonia

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Agrotis
Species:	A. simplonia
Binomial name
*Agrotis simplonia* (Geyer, 1832)
Synonyms
Noctua simplonia Scotia simplonia Euxoa simplonia Agrotis nigrescens Agrotis suffusa Agrotis obsolescens Agrotis coralita

Agrotis simplonia is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Alps, Pyrenees, the Cantabrian Mountains and the Apennine Mountains on heights between 1,200 and 3,000 meters.

The wingspan is 32–40 mm. Adults are on wing from May to October.

The larvae feed on various grasses.

Taxonomy

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The Spanish population was described as a separate species Agrotis coralita by Hospital in 1948. This is now considered a synonym.

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Taxon identifiers
Agrotis simplonia	Wikidata: Q397542 BioLib: 54685 BOLD: 258167 CoL: 5TTD8 EoL: 451356 EUNIS: 309617 Fauna Europaea: 448465 Fauna Europaea (new): 79000c34-1a8a-4750-a502-682d39ce8c01 GBIF (old): 1770773 iNaturalist: 781951 IRMNG: 10303425 LepIndex: 248438 MaBENA: AgrotSimpl NCBI: 987874 Observation.org: 155333 Open Tree of Life: 916926

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