Euxoa pleuritica

Euxoa pleuritica, the fawn brown dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in southern Canada and the northern United States from southern Quebec and eastern Massachusetts west to British Columbia and southern Washington. In the Rocky Mountain region it occurs as far south as northern New Mexico, north-eastern Arizona and central Idaho. It is listed as a species of special concern in Connecticut.[1]

Euxoa pleuritica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Euxoa
Species:
E. pleuritica
Binomial name
Euxoa pleuritica
(Grote, 1876)
Synonyms
  • Agrotis pleuritica Grote, 1876
  • Carneades messoria var. confracta Smith, 1890
  • Carneades confracta (Smith, 1890)

The wingspan is 34–38 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August. There is one generation per year.

The larvae have been reared on Salsola kali.[2]

References
  1. "Connecticut's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015". State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  2. "Species Euxoa pleuritica - Fawn Brown Dart - Hodges#10727".


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