Euxoa eruta

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Euxoa eruta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Euxoa
Species:
E. eruta
Binomial name
Euxoa eruta
(Hübner, [1817])
Synonyms
  • Noctua erutaHübner, [1817]

Euxoa eruta is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Denmark, Fennoscandia, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Turkey, Belarus, the Baltic region, Siberia and from central Asia up to the Altai Mountains. Note that E. eruta may not be a good species. The Euxoa tritici complex consists of five sibling species in Europe: Euxoa tritici (Linnaeus, 1761), Euxoa nigrofusca (Esper, 1788), Euxoa eruta (Hübner, 1817), Euxoa diaphora Boursin, 1928 and Euxoa segnilis (Duponchel, 1836). Furthermore, although Fibiger (1997) treated Euxoa montivaga differently it belongs to the E. tritici complex. Differences among the species are subtle, the most important diagnostic characteristics being genitalic. In studies of three of these species, E. tritici, E. nigrofusca and E. eruta, no support was found for the presence of several morphologically distinguishable species with quantitative morphometric analyses. [1]

The wingspan is 29–38 mm. Adults are on wing from June to September.

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<i>Euxoa nomas</i> Species of moth

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<i>Euxoa catenula</i> Species of moth

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<i>Euxoa mimallonis</i> Species of moth

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<i>Euxoa tessellata</i> Species of moth

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<i>Euxoa adumbrata</i> Species of moth

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<i>Euxoa comosa</i> Species of moth

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<i>Euxoa aquilina</i> Species of moth

Euxoa aquilina is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Mediterranean region of Europe, North Africa, the Near East and the Middle East.

<i>Euxoa vitta</i> Species of moth

Euxoa vitta is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in central and southern Europe.

<i>Euxoa ochrogaster</i> Species of moth

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<i>Euxoa inconcinna</i> Species of moth

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References

  1. Marko Mutanen, 2005 Delimitation difficulties in species splits: a morphometric case study on the Euxoa tritici complex (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) Systematic Entomology (2005), 30, 632–643 pdf