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. 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.
Selected species
Apamea acera (Smith, 1900) Apamea albina (Grote, 1874) Apamea alia (Guenée, 1852) Apamea alpigena (Boisduval, [1837]) 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.