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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 » Ochropleura » Flame-shouldered Dart - Hodges#10891 (Ochropleura implecta)

Species Ochropleura implecta - Flame-shouldered Dart - Hodges#10891

Classification · Hodges Number · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Internet References

Flame-shouldered Dart - Ochropleura implecta

caterpillar feeding on broad-leaf dock - Ochropleura implecta

10891 Flame-shouldered Dart (Ochropleura implecta) - Ochropleura implecta

Lépidoptère, famille Noctuidae - Ochropleura implecta - Ochropleura implecta

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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 Ochropleura

Species implecta (Flame-shouldered Dart - Hodges#10891)

Hodges Number

10891

Numbers

The only species in this genus in North America.

Size

wingspan 25-32 mm

Identification

forewing reddish-brown edged with cream along costa from base to reniform spot; black basal dash and bar extend through gray orbicular and reniform spots

hindwing white with yellowish-brown terminal line and shading at apex

[description by Charles Covell]

Range

Newfoundland to South Carolina, west to Arizona, north to British Columbia

Season

adults fly from May to August

Food

larvae feed on various plants, including beet, clover, chicory, willow

Life Cycle

two generations per year

Remarks

This species was described in 1998 by Don Lafontaine, who distinguished it from the very similar Ochropleura plecta (Flame Shoulder) which occurs only in Eurasia, and was described by Linnaeus in 1761. A number of Internet sites still incorrectly refer to the North American moth as Ochropleura plecta.

See Also

Obelisk Dart (Euxoa obeliscoides) is superficially similar but has large pale reniform and orbicular spots

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG)

Pacific Northwest Moths

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Contributed by Robin McLeod on 16 January, 2005 - 2:51pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, John Davis, marcie oconnor, Steve Morris
Last updated 18 January, 2024 - 1:59pm

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