Polychrysia morigera

Polychrysia morigera, the disjunct looper, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Henry Edwards in 1886. In the east of North America, it is found in the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio river valleys from Pennsylvania to Tennessee. In the Rocky Mountains it is found from Montana to Colorado and on the west coast it occurs from Oregon to northern California.^[1] It is the rarest of the North American Plusiinae species.

Polychrysia morigera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Polychrysia
Species:	P. morigera
Binomial name
Polychrysia morigera (H. Edwards, 1886)
Synonyms
Deva morigera H. Edwards, 1886

The wingspan is 28–31 mm. Adults are on wing from June to July.

The larvae have only been recorded on Delphinium trolliifolium. Covell and Medley (1986) reported adults trapped in the labellum of Cypripedium kentuckiense.