Agnorisma

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Agnorisma
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Agnorisma badinodis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Noctuinae
Genus: Agnorisma
Lafontaine, 1998

Agnorisma is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. Agnorisma species were formerly included in the genus Xestia .

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<i>Xestia</i> Genus of noctuid moths

Xestia is a genus of noctuid moths. They are the type genus of the tribe Xestiini in subfamily Noctuinae, though some authors merge this tribe with the Noctuini. Species in this genus are commonly known as "clays", "darts" or "rustics", but such names are commonplace among Noctuidae. Xestia moths have a wide distribution, though they most prominently occur in the Holarctic.

<i>Xestia dolosa</i> Species of moth

Xestia dolosa, known by the names greater black-letter dart, woodland spotted cutworm and spotted cutworm is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island to Florida west to Texas, north to North Dakota and Manitoba.

Xestia elimata, the southern variable dart or variable climbing caterpillar, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found in the eastern part of North America, including Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, New Jersey, Maryland and New England.

<i>Xestia badicollis</i> Species of insect

Xestia badicollis, the northern variable dart, northern conifer dart or white pine cutworm when referring to the larval stage, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1873. It is found in North America from Nova Scotia to North Carolina, west to Missouri and Ontario.

Agnorisma bugrai, the collard dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Ahmet Ömer Koçak in 1983. It has a transcontinental distribution in North America, from central Canada and the northern United States, southward in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado.

<i>Agnorisma badinodis</i> Species of moth

Agnorisma badinodis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in southern Canada and United States, east of the 100th meridian, and exclusive of the Deep South.

<i>Agnorisma bollii</i> Species of moth

Agnorisma bollii is a moth of the family Noctuidae. This species of moth is "apparently rare" in its range with occurrences in a limited number of states west of the Appalachians, and the Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland. The range of this species appears to be in the states of Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, Arkansas and Kansas. There were specimens discovered in South Carolina, but is too soon to tell if the species is newly introduced or a remnant population.

<i>Xestia dilucida</i> Species of moth

Xestia dilucida, the dull reddish dart or reddish heath dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Herbert Knowles Morrison in 1875. It is found in the United States from southern Maine to northern Florida, west to central Ohio and eastern Texas.

Xestia normaniana, or Norman's dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1874. It is found in North America from Nova Scotia across southern and central Canada to Alberta. In the eastern United States it ranges from Maine to eastern Minnesota, and south along the Appalachians to western North Carolina. It has recently been recorded from Tennessee.

<i>Xestia smithii</i> Species of moth

Xestia smithii, or Smith's dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen in 1896. It is found across northern North America from Newfoundland to Alaska. In the eastern United States it occurs from Maine to Virginia and south along the Appalachians to North Carolina. In the west it is found in the Black Hills in western South Dakota and north-eastern Wyoming, in the Rocky Mountains from Montana to New Mexico, south-eastern Arizona, and from Washington to east central California. It has recently been recorded from Tennessee.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Noctuina</span> Subtribe of moths

Noctuina is a subtribe of cutworm or dart moths in the family Noctuidae. There are at least 170 described species in Noctuina.

<i>Xestia oblata</i> Species of moth

Xestia oblata, known generally as the rosy dart or ruby dart, is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.

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