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Euxoa obelisca

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Guen. the same size as type, forewing with more acute apex, deep shining violet brown, with traces of subterminal only: costa and stigmata (which are small) pale testaceous; the orbicular somewhat angulated, the reniform constricted in middle: claviform obsolete: the cell deep black; hindwing very
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Forewing purplish brown; costa pale to outer line: cell dark brown; stigmata large, greyish ochreous: the claviform dark; hindwing in male white, with narrow grey shade along margin, in female more or less grey-tinged throughout.- in ab.
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nov. has the ground colour purplish black, with the costal streak and upper stigmata pale and the cell deep black: all the lines indistinct: several examples of both sexes sent from Uralsk by M. Bartel.
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The caterpillar is obscure greyish or brownish, with a dark-edged pale line along the middle of the dorsum, and a dusky line on each side of it; low down on the sides is another dusky line.
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dark; described from a female only from Lapland; omitted by Staudinger, but probably a distinct species: a very distinct form from the Urals, which may be called ab.
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Guen. is also larger than typical; forewing ochreous grey with costa and both stigmata whitish, darker in the female; — ab.
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Hbn. , larger than typical, reddish grey or reddish brown, with or without the pale costa: stigmata large and pale: - ab.
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Hbn. the forewing is more variegated, the submarginal line preceded by a row of distinct black teeth; - ab.
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Euxoa obelisca is difficult to certainly distinguish from its congeners. See Townsend et al.
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The moth flies from July to October depending on the location.
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Martin C. Townsend, Jon Clifton and Brian Goodey (2010).
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The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants, such as
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuoidea
Noctuidae
Euxoa
Binomial name
Denis
Schiffermüller
moth
Noctuidae
Palearctic realm
Central Asia
North Africa
Asia minor

Glossary of entomology terms
fictilis
ruris
villiersii

Helianthemum nummularium
Galium
Euxoa tritici
Euxoa nigricans

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