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Euxoa ochrogaster

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Noctuidae

Scientific name
  
Euxoa ochrogaster

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Euxoa

Rank
  
Species

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Similar
  
Euxoa, Euxoa messoria, Euxoa adumbrata, Euxoa cursoria, Euxoa obelisca

Euxoa ochrogaster, the red-backed cutworm, is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Iceland and northern Europe, through the Baltic to the Amur region. In North America, it is found from Alaska to Newfoundland and Labrador, south into the northern part of the United States, south in Rocky Mountains to Arizona and New Mexico.

Adults are on wing from the end of July to beginning of September.

The larvae feed on a variety of broad leaf plants and grasses, including Plantago species. The species is economically important on Helianthus annuus in North America.

Subspecies

  • Euxoa ochrogaster ochrogaster
  • Euxoa ochrogaster islandica (Iceland)
  • Euxoa ochrogaster rossica (Lithuania to Amur)
  • References

    Euxoa ochrogaster Wikipedia