Moths of North Dakota

Common name: no accepted common name, listed here as 'Pale-spot dart.'

Hodges #: 10807.

Identification: Rfw 13.76 mm; fw orbicular wider than dark area in cell between it and reniform spot; fw basal of a.m. line usually paler than median area; fw without carmine scales along costa.

Similar species: 10755, 10756, 10805, 10808, 10849, 10882, and 10954.

Distribution: coast to coast in southern Canada and northern United States, ranging southward in the west to New Mexico, Arizona, and California.

Hosts: Larvae have been reported from Oxytropis spp. (loco weed), Lupinus spp. (lupine), Melilotus spp. (sweetclover), Helianthis spp. (sunflower), Solanum tuberosum (potato), and Zea mays (corn).

Note: Larval hosts have in past been confounded concerning this species and E. declarata such that records here are repeated in each place.

ND Morton Co., Hebron. ♂ E. Krauth.

ND Golden Valley Co., ♀ 1- IX- 1986.
UV lt. trap. G. Fauske.