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Diarsia rosaria

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Noctuidae

Scientific name
  
Diarsia rosaria

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Diarsia

Rank
  
Species

The Rosy Dart (Diarsia rosaria) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Yukon in Canada, south to northern California and eastern Oregon.

It is abundant and widely distributed in wet conifer forests.

Its wingspan is about 30 millimeters (1.2 in). Its larvae feed on various grasses.

Subspecies

  • Diarsia rosaria rosaria (Grote, 1878)
  • Diarsia rosaria freemani Hardwick, 1950
  • References

    Diarsia rosaria Wikipedia