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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) » detersa group (Euxoa detersa group) » Euxoa idahoensis - Hodges#10826 (Euxoa idahoensis)

Species Euxoa idahoensis - Hodges#10826

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · 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 (detersa group)
Species idahoensis (Euxoa idahoensis - Hodges#10826)
Hodges Number
10826
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Euxoa idahoensis (Grote(1), 1878)
Agrotis idahoensis Grote, 1878
Phylogenetic sequence # 933435
Explanation of Names
Named for the state where Henry Edwards collected the holotype.
Size
Forewing length 14–17 mm. (2)
Grote (1878) reported a wingspan of 32 mm.
Range
Central Alaska to Saskatchewan, South Dakota, south to New Mexico and Arizona, and west to central California. (2)
Habitat
dry coniferous forest; pinyon-juniper woodland and deciduous thickets known as less common habitat (3)
Peck (1981) reported Don Lafontaine had determined the adults seek the shelter of caves in the daytime (trogloxene). (4)
Season
The main flight period appears to be May to September. (5)
Food
The larval host plant is unknown but probably herbaceous vegetation similar to related species species. (2)
See Also
Euxoa costata is described with reddish forewings and the cubital vein not pale. (3)
Euxoa castanea has forewings that are a warmer brown color with a more yellowish costal margin. (2)
Euxoa furtivus was previously considered a form of idahoensis. It is streakier in appearance, has pale branches of the cubital vein and row of black wedges on basal side of ST line. The forewing spots are more often dark-filled. (2)
Print References
Grote, A.R., 1878. Descriptions of Noctuidae, chiefly from California. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey, 4: 171.
Hampson, G.F., 1903. Noctuidae. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, 6: 295
Lafontaine, J.D., 1987. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.2. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, p. 124; pl. 6.37-43. (3)
Peck, S.B., 1981. The invertebrate fauna of the caves of the Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah. The Great Basin Naturalist. 210. (4)
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, plate 57, fig. 36; p. 311. (6)
Internet References
Pacific Northwest Moths (2)
Moth Photographers Group (5)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)
North Dakota State University
Works Cited
1.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
2.Pacific Northwest Moths
3.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.
4.The invertebrate fauna of the caves of the Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah
S. B. Peck. 1981. Great Basin Naturalist, 41(2): 207-212.
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
7.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 October, 2013 - 5:20pm
Additional contributions by Steve Morris
Last updated 31 January, 2023 - 4:26pm

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