Agrotis photophila, the light-loving noctuid moth, is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, United States.[1]
This moth was last reported around 1900.[2] Two dead specimens are preserved in the British Museum. These had been collected near Honolulu in the 19th century. At that time the species was already rare.[3]
These dead specimens have been described thus:[3]
35—40 mm. Antennae in,? bidentate with long triangular processes. Fore- wings light greyish-ochreous sprinkled with fuscous ; subbasal, first, and second lines indicated by more or less distinct blackish dots, first and second sometimes forming undefined waved lines ; posterior edge of reniform sometimes indicated by black scales ; traces of a darker praesubterminal shade ; a terminal series of dark fuscous dots. Hindwings light greyish-ochreous, posteriorly infuscated.