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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Noctuini » Agrotina » Euxoa » Subgenus Euxoa (Euxoa Subgenus Euxoa) » bostoniensis group (Euxoa bostoniensis group) » Boston Dart - Hodges#10812 (Euxoa bostoniensis)

Species Euxoa bostoniensis - Boston Dart - Hodges#10812

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Internet References

Boston Dart - Euxoa bostoniensis - female

10812 Euxoa bostoniensis - Euxoa bostoniensis - female

Euxoa bostoniensis - Boston Dart - Hodges#10812 - Euxoa bostoniensis

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Noctuini

Subtribe Agrotina

Genus Euxoa

No Taxon (Subgenus Euxoa)

No Taxon (bostoniensis group)

Species bostoniensis (Boston Dart - Hodges#10812)

Hodges Number

10812

Other Common Names

Drab Cutworm (larva)

Size

wingspan 40-45 mm

Identification

forewing pale mouse-gray; lines faint, double, incomplete except for a broad single median line which passes through faint reniform spot, then angles toward costa; no orbicular spot

hindwing white with grayish-brown border in male; solid grayish-brown in female

[description by Charles Covell]

Range

Ontario and Maine to North Carolina, west to Missouri, north to Michigan; also recorded in Florida, California, and South Dakota

Season

adults fly in May and again in September and October

Food

the only recorded larval food plant is tobacco but the species occurs in many areas where tobacco is not present

Remarks

no images of live adults or larvae found on Internet, as of 4 Oct 2005

Internet References

pinned adult image of male (CBIF)

pinned adult image of female, appearing on this page (Strickland Entomological Museum, U. of Alberta)

pinned adult image of male from North Carolina (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 4 October, 2005 - 4:39pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, marcie oconnor
Last updated 27 February, 2016 - 9:20pm

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