Common name: no accepted common name,
listed here as 'Four-tooth dart.' Hodges #: 10830.
Identification: Rfw 13.54 mm, costa pale, R and Cu stem with white
scales, orbicular spot round, four white streaks in st. area, pale streak
from claviform spot to st. line; hws vary from nearly immaculate
white with light fuscous margins to fuscous with darker margins and white
fringe, overall darker in &&.
Male antennae moderately bifasciculate; note generic characters of
Euxoa.
Similar species: 10670,
10731,
10741, 10768,
10804,
10831, 10833,
10834,
10836,
10839,
10864, and
10976.
Distribution: western North America from southern Canada to NM, AZ,
and CA; in the northern part of its range occurring eastward to the
eastern edge of the Great Plains.
Hosts: Larvae have been reared on wheat (Cook 1930).
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ND Divide Co., UV lt. trap.
6- IX- 2004. K. Anderson.
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