Moths of North Dakota

Common name: No accepted common name, listed here as 'Divergent-lined dart.'

Hodges #: 10702.

Identification: Rfw 14.56 mm, R and Cu stems, and ordinary spots outlined in white scales, black before and between ordinary spots but without pale streaks in pm area; hws fuscous, paler basad in %%. Male antennae moderately bifasciculate; vesica elongate Note generic characters of Euxoa.

Similar species: 10756, 10805, 10831, 10836, 10861, 10862, 10863, 10864, 10951 and 11047.

Distribution: Hudsonian zone from Yukon to Newfoundland southward into the northern U.S.
In western North America extending south in the mountains to New Mexico and southern California.

Hosts: Larvae have been reported on alfalfa in Montana (Cook 1930). Natural hosts are unknown..

Note: The elongate vesica, characteristic of the subgenus Longivesica, places this species among a few moths mostly quite dissimilar in external appearance.

ND McLean Co., Natl. Guard Reserve lands. 11 mi WSW Garrison. 47 36 25 N lat.,
101 33 57 W long. Hg/UV lt. 28- VI- 2002. G. Fauske.