Apamea is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.

Some Apamea species are pest insects. The larval Apamea niveivenosa is a cutworm known as a pest of grain crops in North America."Apamea niveivenosa". Pacific Northwest Moths. The larva of A. apamiformis is the rice worm, the most serious insect pest of cultivated wild rice in the Upper Midwest of the United States.Oelke, E. A. 1993. "Wild rice: Domestication of a native North American genus". p. 235-43. In: Janick, J. and J. E. Simon (eds.), New Crops. Wiley, New York.

Selected species Apamea acera (Smith, 1900) Apamea albina (Grote, 1874) Apamea alia (Guenée, 1852) Apamea alpigena (Boisduval, ) Apamea alticola (Smith, 1891) Apamea altijuga (Kozhantshikov, 1925) Apamea amputatrix (Fitch, 1857) – yellow-headed cutworm Apamea anceps (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – large nutmeg Apamea antennata (Smith, 1891) Apamea apamiformis (Guenée, 1852) – rice worm, wild rice worm Apamea aquila Donzel, 1837 Apamea arabs (Oberthür, 1881) Apamea assimilis (Doubleday, 1847) Apamea atriclava (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913) Apamea atrosuffusa (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913) (syn. A. grotei (Barnes & McDunnough, 1914)) Apamea auranticolor (Grote, 1873) Apamea baischi Hacker, 1989 Apamea barbara (Berio, 1940) Apamea basimacula Boisduval, 1833 Apamea bernardino Mikkola & Mustelin 2000 Apamea boopis (Hampson, 1908) Apamea brunnea (Leech, 1900) Apamea brunnescens Kononenko, 1985 Apamea burgessi (Morrison, 1874) Apamea caesia Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998 Apamea cariosa (Guenée, 1852) – nondescript dagger moth Apamea centralis (Smith, 1891) Apamea chalybeata (Walker, 1865) Apamea chhiringi Hreblay, 1998 Apamea chinensis (Leech, 1900) Apamea cinefacta (Grote, 1881) Apamea cogitata (Smith, 1891) – thoughtful apamea Apamea commixta (Butler, 1881) Apamea commoda (Walker, 1857) – southern Quaker Apamea commoda commoda (Walker, 1857) Apamea commoda parcata (Smith, 1903) Apamea commoda striolata Mikkola, 2009 Apamea concinna (Leech, 1900) Apamea contradicta (Smith, 1895) – northern banded Quaker Apamea crenata Hufnagel, 1766 – clouded-bordered brindle Apamea cristata (Grote, 1878) Apamea cuculliformis (Grote, 1875) Apamea cyanea (Hampson, 1908) Apamea desegaulxi Viette, 1928 Apamea devastator Brace, 1819 – glassy cutworm Apamea digitula Mikkola and Mustelin, 2006 Apamea dubitans (Walker, 1856) – doubtful apamea Apamea epomidion (Haworth, 1809) – clouded brindle Apamea erythrographa Hreblay, Peregovits & Ronkay, 1999 Apamea euxinia Hacker, 1985 Apamea exstincta (Staudinger, 1892) Apamea fasciata (Leech, 1900) Apamea fergusoni Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009 Apamea ferrago (Eversmann, 1837) Apamea fervida (Hampson, 1908) Apamea furva (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – the confused Apamea gabrieli Mikkola & Mustelin 2000 Apamea ganeshi Hreblay, 1998 Apamea gangtoki Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998 Apamea geminimacula (Dyar, 1904) Apamea genialis (Grote, 1874) Apamea glenura (Swinhoe, 1895) Apamea glenurina Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999 Apamea goateri Hacker, 2001 Apamea goperma Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999 Apamea gratissima Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999 Apamea griveaudi Viette, 1967 Apamea groenlandica (Duponchel, ) Apamea hampsoni Sugi, 1963 Apamea heinickei Hreblay, 1998 Apamea helva (Grote, 1875) – yellow three-spot Apamea illyria Freyer, 1846 Apamea impedita (Christoph, 1887) Apamea impulsa (Guenée, 1852) Apamea indocilis (Walker, 1856) – ignorant apamea Apamea inebriata Ferguson, 1977 – drunk apamea Apamea inficita (Walker, 1857) – lined Quaker Apamea inordinata (Morrison, 1875) Apamea kaszabi Varga, 1982 Apamea kumari Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999 Apamea lateritia (Hufnagel, 1766) – scarce brindle Apamea leucodon (Eversmann, 1837) Apamea lieni Hreblay, 1998 Apamea lignea (Butler, 1889) Apamea lignicolora (Guenée, 1852) – wood-coloured Quaker Apamea lintneri Grote, 1873 Apamea lithoxylaea Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 – light arches Apamea longula (Grote, 1879) Apamea lutosa (Andrews, 1877) – opalescent apamea Apamea lysis (Fawcett, 1917) Apamea macronephra Berio, 1959 Apamea magnirena (Boursin, 1943) Apamea maraschi (Draudt, 1934) Apamea maroccana (Zerny, 1934) Apamea maxima (Dyar, 1904) Apamea michielii Varga, 1976 Apamea mikkolai Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998 Apamea minnecii (Berio, 1939) Apamea minoica (Fibiger, Schmidt & Zilli, 2005) Apamea monoglypha Hufnagel, 1766 – dark arches Apamea nekrasovi Mikkola, Gyulai & Varga, 1997 Apamea nigrior (Smith, 1891) – black-dashed apamea, dark apamea Apamea nigrostria Hreblay, Peregovits & Ronkay, 1999 Apamea niveivenosa (Grote, 1879) – snowy-veined apamea Apamea nubila Moore, 1881 Apamea obliviosa (Walker, 1858) Apamea oblonga (Haworth, 1809) – crescent striped Apamea occidens (Grote, 1878) – western apamea Apamea ontakensis Sugi, 1982 Apamea ophiogramma Esper, 1793 – double lobed Apamea pallifera (Grote, 1877) Apamea permixta Kononenko, 2006Kononenko, V. (2006). Apamea permixta, sp. n., from China - the putative sister species of A. commixta (Butler) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Xyleninae: Apameini). Zootaxa 1371: 37-43. Apamea perpensa (Grote, 1881) Apamea perstriata (Hampson, 1908) Apamea platinea (Treitschke, 1825) Apamea plutonia (Grote, 1883) – dusky Quaker, dusky apamea Apamea polyglypha (Staudinger, 1892) Apamea pseudoaltijuga Grosser, 1985 Apamea purpurina (Hampson, 1908) Apamea quinteri Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009 Apamea rectificata Hreblay & Plante, 1995 Apamea relicina (Morrison, 1875) Apamea relicina relicina (Morrison, 1875) Apamea relicina migrata (Smith, ) Apamea remissa Hübner, 1809 – dusky brocade Apamea reseri Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998 Apamea robertsoni Mikkola and Mustelin, 2006 Apamea roedereri Viette, 1976 Apamea rubrirena (Treitschke, 1825) Apamea rufa (Draudt, 1950) Apamea rufomedialis (Marumo, 1920) Apamea rufus (Chang, 1991) Apamea sanyibaglya Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998 Apamea schawerdae (Draeseke, 1928) Apamea scolopacina (Esper, 1788) – slender brindle Apamea scoparia Mikkola, Mustelin & Lafontaine, 2000 Apamea shibuyoides Poole, 1989 Apamea sicula (Turati, 1909) Apamea sinuata (Moore, 1882) Apamea siskiyou Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009 Apamea smythi Franclemont, 1952 Apamea sodalis (Butler, 1878) Apamea sora (Smith, 1903) Apamea sordens Hufnagel, 1766 – rustic shoulder-knot Apamea spaldingi (Smith, 1909) – Spalding's Quaker Apamea stagmatipennis (Dyar, 1920) Apamea striata Haruta & Sugi, 1958 Apamea sublustris (Esper, ) – reddish light arches Apamea submarginata (Leech, 1900) Apamea submediana (Draudt, 1950) Apamea superba (Turati, 1926) Apamea syriaca (Osthelder, 1932) Apamea tahoeensis Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009 Apamea taiwana (Wileman, 1914) Apamea terranea (Butler, 1889) Apamea unanimis (Hübner, ) – small clouded brindle Apamea unita (Smith, 1904) Apamea verbascoides (Guenée, 1852) – boreal apamea, mullein apamea Apamea veterina (Lederer, 1853) Apamea vicaria (Püngeler, 1902) Apamea vulgaris (Grote & Robinson, 1866) – common apamea Apamea vultuosa (Grote, 1875) – airy apamea Apamea walshi Lafontaine, 2009 Apamea wasedana Sugi, 1982 Apamea wikeri Quinter & Lafontaine, 2009 Apamea xylodes Mikkola & Lafontaine, 2009 Apamea zeta (Treitschke, 1825)

Former species Apamea formosensis is now Leucapamea formosensis (Hampson, 1910) Apamea mixta is now Melanapamea mixta (Grote, 1881)

References

Further reading Butler (1881). Transactions of Entomological Society of London 1881: 174.