Apantesis speciosa

Apantesis speciosa is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Heinrich Benno Möschler in 1864. It is found from Labrador west to British Columbia and Alaska. The habitat consists of wetlands, bogs and sub-Arctic tundra. The species is listed as endangered in Connecticut.^[1]

Apantesis speciosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Apantesis
Species:	A. speciosa
Binomial name
Apantesis speciosa (Möschler, 1864)
Synonyms
Grammia speciosa (Möschler, 1864) Arctia speciosa Möschler, 1864 Apantesis virguncula speciosa

The length of the forewings is 13.9–15.8 mm. Adults are on wing from late June to late July.^[2]

The larvae probably feed on various herbaceous plants.^[3]

This species was formerly a member of the genus Grammia, but was moved to Apantesis along with the other species of the genera Grammia, Holarctia, and Notarctia.^[4][5]

Subspecies

• Apantesis speciosa speciosa
• Apantesis speciosa celineata B.C. Schmidt, 2009 (the foothills and mountains of southern and central Alberta and possibly further north in the cordilleran region of western Canada)