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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) » hollemani group (Euxoa hollemani group) » Euxoa xasta - Hodges#10821 (Euxoa xasta)

Species Euxoa xasta - Hodges#10821

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

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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 (hollemani group)

Species xasta (Euxoa xasta - Hodges#10821)

Hodges Number

10821

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Euxoa xasta Barnes & McDunnough(1), 1910 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence # 933403 (3)

Size

The forewing length averages 14–16 mm. (4)

Identification

Pacific Northwest Moths description is linked below.

Barnes & McDunnough (1910) description is online. (2)

The forewing has a narrow black basal dash. (2)

Range

Texas to Arizona, Nevada and Colorado. (5), (4)

Syntype from Texas, Kerr County, Kerrville. (2)

Season

The adults are most common from May to September. (5)

See Also

Euxoa absona

Print References

Barnes, W. & J. McDunnough(1), 1910. New species and varieties of North American Lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 42: 249. (2)

Lafontaine, J.D., 1987. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.2, p. 94; pl. 4.47-48. (6)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (4)

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Works Cited

1.	James Halliday McDunnough (1877 -1962) A biographical obituary and bibliography Douglas C. Ferguson . 1962. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 16(4): 209-228.

2.	New species and varieties of North American Lepidoptera Part 1 & 2 W. Barnes, J. B. McDunnough. 1910. The Canadian Entomologist 42(7): 208-213, 246-252.

3.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

4.	Pacific Northwest Moths

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (Part), Noctuinae (Part-Euxoa), Fascicle 27.2 J. Donald LaFontane. 1987. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 August, 2013 - 1:29am
Last updated 5 April, 2014 - 8:47pm

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