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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 » Agrotis » Old Man Dart - Hodges#10641 (Agrotis vetusta)

Species Agrotis vetusta - Old Man Dart - Hodges#10641

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

Noctuidae: Agrotis vetusta - Agrotis vetusta

Old Man Dart - Hodges#10641 - Agrotis vetusta

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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 Agrotis

Species vetusta (Old Man Dart - Hodges#10641)

Hodges Number

10641

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Agrotis vetusta (Walker, 1856)

Size

FWL ≈ 15-21 mm (1)

WS ≈ 35-42mm

Identification

Adult: FW light powder- grey or grey-brown, with a dark reniform spot. PM is a series of black dots. Terminal line is a series of black dots. HW and abdomen white. Antennae simple and sexes similar.

Larva: Gray with longitudinal darker subdorsal lines. The head is pale orange with a number of dark dorsal spots.(1)

Range

Widespread in North America; coast to coast in Canada, north to Yukon and Northwest Territories.

Habitat

Sandy soils.(1)

Season

Adults fly from late July to mid October.(1)

Food

Larvae feed on broadleaf herbaceous plants in at least 13 families.(1)

See Also

Euxoa comosa

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group – images of live & pinned adults

BOLD Systems - pinned images of DNA supported specimens

E. H. Strickland Museum - description

live adult image (Steve Walter)

pinned adult image (U. of Arizona)

pinned adult images (Bo Sullivan, Dalton State College)

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 16 January, 2005 - 4:37pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 4 August, 2023 - 11:49am

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