Moths of North Dakota

Noctuidae: Noctuinae: Agrotini


Euxoa lidia (Stoll 1782)

Common name: No accepted common name, listed here as ‘Northern army cutworm.’

Hodges #: 10730.

Identification: Rfw 18.6, a polychromic species, fw with antemedial line not strongly excurved below A1+2; male juxta with prominent conical median process; sacculus extension spatulate at apex. 

Similar species: 10731, 10801.

Distribution: Eurasia, southern Canada and northern U. S., southward in Rockies to Colorado, also Greenland.

Hosts: not known for North America but almost certainly Poaceae– grasses.

 

 

ND  Grand Forks Co., Northwood. 
18- VII- 1957.  J. Onsauger.

 

 

  
 

 

 


Last updated: 02/06/07

Dr. Gerald M. Fauske
collection manager, NDSIRC
research specialist, NDSU
216 Hultz Hall
Fargo, ND 58105
E-Mail: Gerald.Fauske@ndsu.nodak.edu

 
Published by the Department of Entomology 


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