Moths of North Dakota

Common name: No accepted common name, listed here as ‘Lesser square-spot dart.'

Hodges #: 10817.

Identification: Rfw , Combination of pale costa and reniform, and round orbicular spot, frons with median tubercle. Genitalic characters are used for certain separation from a few close congeners: harpe straight and without pubescence, vesica with tri-lobed sub-basal diverticulum.

Similar species: 10674, 10818, 10826, 10851, 10878, and 11047.

Distribution: Western United states and southern Canada, eastward in transition zone to the Atlantic.

Hosts: unknown in nature, laboratory rearing indicate the species overwinters in the egg stage.

ND Cass Co., Fargo. florescent lt.
2- IX- 2004. G. Fauske;

SD Minnehaha Co., Sioux Falls.
florescent lt. 28- VII- 1977. G. Fauske.