| Moths of North Dakota |
Noctuidae: Noctuinae: Noctuini |
Abagrotis alternata (Grote 1864)
| Common name: Mottled gray cutworm Hodges #: 11029. Identification: Rfw 17.22 mm; ground color red brown; st area paler, ordinary spots usually darker, reniform with lower portion fuscous; Pm and St lines in well marked specimens black and crenellate between veins. Hws fuscous. Labial palpus 2nd segment with apical tuft; palpus laterally brownish and smooth scaled ventrally. Pro-tibiae without sclerotized setae. Abdomen flattened. Similar species: 10731, 10753, 10926, 10928, 10944, 10992, 11024.1, 11027, 11039, 11041, 11045, and 11049.1 Distribution: southern Canada and United States excepting the Pacific states and the southeast. Hosts: Larvae have been reported from foliage or buds of a wide variety of plants including: white spruce, walnut, hickories, oak, strawberry, apple, cherry, plum, peach, potato and tomato (Rings 1971).
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ND Cass Co., Fargo. UV lt. trap.
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