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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 » Noctuina » Xestia » Smith's Dart - Hodges#10944 (Xestia smithii)

Species Xestia smithii - Smith's Dart - Hodges#10944

Classification · Hodges Number · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Internet References
Smith's Dart - Xestia smithii Noctuidae: Xestia smithii - Xestia smithii Smith's Dart - Xestia smithii moth sp. - Xestia smithii Noctuidae: Xestia smithii - Xestia smithii Smith's Dart - Xestia smithii Xestia smithii - Xestia smithii Pennsylvania Moth - Xestia smithii
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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 Noctuina
Genus Xestia
Species smithii (Smith's Dart - Hodges#10944)
Hodges Number
10944
Size
wingspan 35-40 mm
Identification
forewing varies from pinkish to reddish or grayish-brown, with slightly darker shading in median area and beyond PM line; small black blotch on costa near apex is sharpest dark marking; lines double, grayish, faint
hindwing grayish-brown [description by Charles Covell]
genitalia
Range
throughout United States, and every province and territory of Canada except Nunavut
Season
adults fly from June to October
Food
larvae feed on alder, apple, avens, dock, false hellebore, grape, nettle, raspberry, salmonberry, strawberry, thimbleberry, violet, white birch
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (MPG)
Pacific Northwest Moths
Barcode of Life (BOLD)
live adult and larva images and food plants (Jeremy Tatum, Butterflies and Moths of Southern Vancouver Island)
adult images and food plants (Larry Line, Maryland)
US distribution map (Moths of North America; USGS)
common name reference plus food plants and flight season (Ohio State U.)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 29 August, 2005 - 1:39am
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Steve Morris
Last updated 30 April, 2023 - 9:36am

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