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Genus Eucoptocnemis

Representative Images

Fringed Dart - Eucoptocnemis fimbriaris - female Rest Stop Moth - Eucoptocnemis fimbriaris Hodges#10696.1 - Eucoptocnemis nr-rufula - male Fringed Dart - Eucoptocnemis fimbriaris Eucoptocnemis fimbriaris - male Eucoptocnemis fimbriaris - male Eucoptocnemis rufula - male Obelisk? - Eucoptocnemis fimbriaris - male
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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 Eucoptocnemis

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

E. dollii was formerly placed in genus Agrotis
E. obvia, sordida, tripars, worthingtoni are all treated as synonyms of the type species E. fimbriaris at All-Leps

Numbers

6 species in North America (and the world) listed at All-Leps, 2 of which were described by Lafontaine in 2004

Size

wingspan 25-35 mm

Identification

Adult: forewing pale to dark gray or brown, usually with prominent reniform spot and dotted PM line; hindwing white to grayish-brown

Range

all of United States except the northwest, plus southern Ontario

Season

adults fly in fall

Internet References

pinned and live adult images of E. dapsilis (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)
live adult images of E. fimbriaris [and tripars, now synonymized with fimbriaris] (Moth Photographers Group)
pinned adult images of E. fimbriaris and dapsilis by Jim Vargo (Moth Photographers Group)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 12 May, 2006 - 1:02am

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