Xestia oblata

"Rosy dart" redirects here. For another moth known by that common name, see Diarsia rosaria.

Xestia oblata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Tribe:	Noctuini
Subtribe:	Noctuina
Genus:	Xestia
Species:	X. oblata
Binomial name
Xestia oblata (Morrison, 1875)

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. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

The MONA or Hodges number for Xestia oblata is 10947. ^[4]

Subspecies

These two subspecies belong to the species Xestia oblata:

• Xestia oblata oblata
• Xestia oblata streckeriBarnes & Benjamin, 1927

References

1. "Xestia oblata Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Xestia oblata". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Xestia oblata species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
4. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Xestia oblata" . Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

• Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 127–47. Bibcode:2010ZooK...40....1L. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.40.414 .
• Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2015). "Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico, III". ZooKeys (527): 227–236. Bibcode:2015ZooK..527..127L. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.527.6151 . PMC   4668890 . PMID   26692790.
• Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287 .