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Preferred larval host is Heracleum maximum. Also uses Pastinaca sativa, Heracleum sphondylium. (Quinter E.L., McBride A.E. (2025) The Moths of North America.)
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| Papaipema harrisii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Papaipema |
| Species: | P. harrisii
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| Binomial name | |
| Papaipema harrisii (Grote, 1881)
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Papaipema harrisii, known generally as the cow parsnip borer moth or heracleum stem borer, is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae.[1][2][3][4] It is found in North America.[2]
The MONA or Hodges number for Papaipema harrisii is 9472.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Papaipema harrisii Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
- ^ a b "Papaipema harrisii Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
- ^ "Papaipema harrisii Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
- ^ a b "North American Moth Photographers Group, Papaipema harrisii". Retrieved 2018-02-07.
Further reading
[edit]- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Crabo, L; Davis, M; Hammond, P; Mustelin, T; Shepard, J (2013). "Five new species and three new subspecies of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Northwestern North America, with notes on Chytolita Grote (Erebidae) and Hydraecia Guenée (Noctuidae)". ZooKeys (264): 85–123. doi:10.3897/zookeys.264.4304. PMC 3668377. PMID 23730179.
- Lafontaine, D; Troubridge, J (2010). "Two new species of the Euxoa westermanni species-group from Canada (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae)". ZooKeys (39): 255–262. doi:10.3897/zookeys.39.436.