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Euxoa

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Euxoa
Euxoa temera
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Noctuinae
Tribe: Noctuini
Subtribe: Agrotina
Genus: Euxoa
Hübner, 1821

Euxoa is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae erected by the German entomologist, Jacob Hübner. The genus is mostly confined to dry and semi dry areas in the northern hemisphere. There 130 species in Eurasia, a few in Africa, and 175 in North America. There are no species in the genus in South-East Asia or in Australia.[1] In North America, most species are found in western regions. Of the North American species, four are endemic to Mexico. There is one species recorded from Chile, but this may be a mislabeled specimen.[2] In real terms, species numbers do not equal species abundance. Some areas with few species have large numbers of the ones that do live there.

In North America there are seven subgenera; Chorizagrotis, Palaeoeuxoa, Heteroeuxoa, Longivesica, Pleuonectopoda, Orstagrotis, and Euxoa.

The larvae of this genus are cutworms, living in the soil but feeding on the surface. A few species also climb. Most larval Euxoa hatch from eggs laid in autumn, and most go through a summer diapause, before pupating when the temperature drops later in the summer.[3] The genus includes the prolific miller moths, which are full adult army cutworms labeled as the species Euxoa auxiliaris and common in North America. This species is also a crucial late summer food source for grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. [4]

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References

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  1. Lafontaine, J. D., 1987. Noctuoidea: Noctuidae (part) in Dominick, R. B., et al., The Moths of America North of Mexico, fasc. 27.2 p.16
  2. Lafontaine, J. D., 1987. Noctuoidea: Noctuidae (part) in Dominick, R. B., et al., The Moths of America North of Mexico, fasc. 27.2 p.16
  3. Lafontaine, J. D., 1987. Noctuoidea: Noctuidae (part) in Dominick, R. B., et al., The Moths of America North of Mexico, fasc. 27.2 p.16
  4. Nunlist, Erika A.; Tyers, Dan; Pils, Andrew; Sowell, Bok F. (2023). "Grizzly bears and humans at alpine moth sites in Wyoming, USA". Human-Wildlife Interactions. 17 (1): 71–85. ISSN 2155-3858.