[ **up: [[Insects]] | [[Lepidoptera (Order)]] | [[Noctuidae (Family)]]** ] --- # Agrotis moths | *Agrotis* (Genus) > Agrotis is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816. A number of the species of this genus are extinct.[^1] --- ## Taxonomy - **[[Life (Biology)]]** - **[[Eukaryotes|Eukaryota (Domain)]]** - **[[Animals|Animalia (Kingdom)]]** - [[Arthropods|Arthropoda (Phylum)]] - [[Insects|Insecta (Class)]] - [[Lepidoptera (Order)]] - [[Noctuidae (Family)]] - *[[Agrotis moth|Agrotis (Genus)]]* <small>AGROTIS MOTH</small> --- ## Reproduction ### Pheromones [[2025-0321. '... male Agrotis moths do not respond to female sex pheromone for up to 24 hours after mating.'|'Male Agrotis moths do not respond to female sex pheromone for up to 24 hours after mating. Even though pheromone still stimulates the olfactory sensory neurons in the male moth’s antennae, the brain response is blocked until enough time has elapsed for the male to have replenished his accessory protein stores to go with his sperm.’]][^2] [^1]: ‘Agrotis’, *Wikipedia*, updated 1 January 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrotis. [^2]: Tristram D. Wyatt, ‘[[Wyatt. ‘Pheromones’, 2017.|Pheromones]]’, *Current Biology*, vol. 27, issue 15 (7 August 2017), p. R740.