| Moths of North Dakota |
Noctuidae: Noctuinae: Agrotini |
Euxoa mimallonis (Grote 1873)
| Common name: No accepted common name,
listed here as ‘Ruddy-winged dart moth.’
Hodges #: 10738. Identification: Rfw 18.6, fws usually deep reddish brown, hws white with a dark terminal line (%%) or with fuscous outer margin (&&). Frons with central tubercle, pro-tibiae with mesal and lateral row of setae. Male clasper with short blunt sacculus extension. Similar species: 10764, 10798, 10801, 10813, 10865, 10978, and 10878.1. Distribution: western U.S. and southern Canada, eastward in transition zone to East coast. Life history: Has been reared under laboratory conditions (Agriculture Canada), overwinters as an egg. Adults fly in August and September. Note: Two subspecies in the western Great Plains, E. m. gagates (Grote) along the western edge of the Dakotas and westward with dark gray fws, and E. m. mimallonis (Grote), the eastern and northern range of the species and broadly overlapping in the west.
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