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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 Orosagrotis (Euxoa Subgenus Orosagrotis) » ridingsiana group (Euxoa ridingsiana group) » Polished Dart Moth  - Hodges#10865 (Euxoa perpolita)
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Euxoa perpolita? - Euxoa perpolita
Copyright © 2018 jim sogaard

Euxoa perpolita? - Euxoa perpolita
Lake George, Hubbard County, Minnesota, USA
August 14, 2012
Came to BL in pine barrens. Hard to get the color right in a scan of my slide.

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Contributed by jim sogaard on 20 April, 2018 - 1:51pm
Last updated 17 November, 2019 - 8:09am

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The dark, even, purplish to red
The dark, even, purplish to reddish color, obscurely dark-outlined concolorous spots, absence of light shading in reniform, and presence in a dry conifer forest in late summer all point to perpolita.
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