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Identification key to the Noctuinae
occurring in the Dakotas
Below are four possibilities: A, B, C and
D. Compare your moth to each successive choice. These choices are
not always mutually exclusive, proceed to 'B' only if your
specimen does not fit 'A', likewise for B, C, and D.
A.
Protibiae longer than basitarsus.
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B.
Second segment of labial palpus blackish
laterally
and white apically or all
white.
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C. Proboscis atrophied,
male antennae pectinate.
Eucoptocnemis fimbriaris (Guenée)*
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D.
Not fitting the above characters.
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