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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) » pluralis group (Euxoa pluralis group) » Euxoa pluralis - Hodges#10795 (Euxoa pluralis)

Species Euxoa pluralis - Hodges#10795

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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 (pluralis group)
Species pluralis (Euxoa pluralis - Hodges#10795)
Hodges Number
10795
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Euxoa pluralis (Grote(1), 1878)
Porosagrotis pluralis (Grote, 1878)
Agrotis pluralis Grote, 1878
Phylogenetic sequence # 933372 (2)
Size
Forewing length 15–18 mm. (3)
Identification
"The orange and gray forewing color and pattern of this species are diagnostic". (3)
Range
California to New Mexico, north to Wyoming and British Columbia.
See Also
Check the forewings for the PM lines and also the missing dark-shading in and around the reniform spots. The orbicular spots are usually unshaded and fairly circular to oval.
Rhizagrotis stylata
Print References
Grote, A.R., 1878. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 4, p. 174.
Hampson, G.F., 1903. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, 4: 141.
Lafontaine, J.D., 1987. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.2. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, p. 75; pl. 3, figs. 21-22. (4)
Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, plate 57, fig. 26; p. 311. (5)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (6)
Pacific Northwest Moths (3)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)
Works Cited
1.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
2.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 .
3.Pacific Northwest Moths
4.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.
5.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
6.North American Moth Photographers Group
7.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 October, 2013 - 8:17pm
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 8 July, 2023 - 10:27am

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