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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaHexapodaInsectaLepidopteraNoctuidaeSyngrapha

Spruce Climbing Cutworm
Syngrapha alias (Ottolengui, 1902)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Hexapoda
Class Insecta
Order Lepidoptera
Family Noctuidae
Genus Syngrapha
Species Syngrapha alias (Ottolengui, 1902)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Trogloxene
Realm
Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Counties

County-level records have not been compiled for this taxon. Distribution is recorded at state and karst-region level.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G5 Secure

G1G2G3G4G5▲

National ranks

Canada
N5 Secure
United States
NNR

Subnational ranks

Yukon
SU Unrankable
Quebec
SNR Unranked
British Columbia
S4 Apparently Secure
Newfoundland and Labrador
S4 Apparently Secure
Manitoba
S4 Apparently Secure
Alberta
S5 Secure
Newfoundland and Labrador
SNR Unranked
Saskatchewan
S3 Vulnerable
Nova Scotia
S4 Apparently Secure
Ontario
S4 Apparently Secure
New Brunswick
S4 Apparently Secure
Prince Edward Island
SU Unrankable
Northwest Territories
SU Unrankable
Pennsylvania
SNR Unranked
Montana
SNR Unranked
Vermont
SNR Unranked
Idaho
S3 Vulnerable
Virginia
S1 Critically Imperiled
North Carolina
S2 Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

  • Peck, S.B. 1988. A review of the cave fauna of Canada, and the composition and ecology of the invertebrate fauna of caves and mines in Ontario. Canadian Journal of Zoology 66: 1197–1213. doi:10.1139/z88-176

How to cite this account

Syngrapha alias (Ottolengui, 1902). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-2980. https://cavebiology.org/species/syngrapha-alias/ (accessed 6 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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