| Moths of North Dakota |
Noctuidae: Noctuinae: Agrotini |
Euxoa dargo (Strecker 1898)
| Common name: no accepted common name,
listed here as 'Strecker's dart.' Hodges #: 10836. Identification: Rfw 13.6 mm, costa pale, R and Cu stem with white scales, orbicular spot round to oblong, four white streaks in st. area, yellow streak from claviform spot to st. line; hws vary from whitish with light fuscous margins to fuscous with darker margins, overall darker in &&. Tegula with a band of white scales basally. Male antennae heavily bifasciculate; note generic characters of Euxoa (Euxoa). Similar species: 10670,
10731,
10741, 10768,
10804,
10830,
10831, 10833,
10834,
10839, Distribution: northern Great Plains, extending southward along the western edge of the plains to Texas, in the north occurring in the Pacific Northwest and southern British Columbia. Hosts: Larvae have been reported on corn and Russian thistle (Knudson 1944). Note: a junior subjective synonym, Carneades rumatana
Smith, was described in 1903 from |
ND Williams Co., Williston. UV lt. trap,
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