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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 » Paradiarsia » Labrador Dart - Hodges#10992 (Paradiarsia littoralis)

Species Paradiarsia littoralis - Labrador Dart - Hodges#10992

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Life Cycle · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Name that moth part 7 - Paradiarsia littoralis - male

Enargia sp. - Paradiarsia littoralis - male

Noctuidae: Paradiarsia littoralis? - Paradiarsia littoralis - female

Paradiarsia littoralis - Hodges#10992 - Paradiarsia littoralis - male

Paradiarsia littoralis (Paradiarsia littoralis) - Paradiarsia littoralis - female

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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 Paradiarsia

Species littoralis (Labrador Dart - Hodges#10992)

Hodges Number

10992

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Paradiarsia littoralis (Packard, 1867)

Paradiarsia littoralis pectinata (Grote, 1874)

Phylogenetic Sequence # 933544

Size

forewing length 13-18 mm (1)

Identification

Detailed description can be found in MONA Fascicle 27-3 at link in citations below. (1)

Range

Labrador to Alaska and southward to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the East and northern New Mexico, southern Utah and northeastern California in the West (1)

Habitat

most common in steppe and dry boreal habitats (1)

Season

mid-June to early August (1)

Life Cycle

Eggs; larva; Adult female; Adult Male:

See Also

Sometimes other species, such as the Rosewing - Sideridis rosea might look very similar. (thorax much darker than wings)

Some other species should have more wing-markings, such as the Bicolored Sallow - Sunira bicolorago.

Yellow Three-spot - Apamea helva

Speckled Green Fruitworm - Orthosia hibisci

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Pacific Northwest Moths

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuiodea, Noctuinae, Noctuini (Part), Fascicle 27.3 J. Donald LaFontaine. 1998. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 18 February, 2010 - 7:22pm
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor, Kyhl Austin, Robert H. Biagi, Steve Morris
Last updated 29 August, 2023 - 1:38pm

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