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Acronicta interrupta (Interrupted Dagger Moth)

Synonyms: Acronicta elizabetha; Acronicta occidentalis

Wikipedia Abstract

The interrupted dagger moth (Acronicta interrupta) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found across southern Canada south of the Boreal forest, from New Brunswick west to eastern Alberta, south to Georgia, Nebraska and Arizona. The wingspan is 35–42 mm. Adults are on wing from April to August or September depending on the location. There are two or more generations per year in the south and one in the north. The larvae feed on apple, apricot, birch, cherry, crabapple, elm, hawthorn, Hop-Hornbeam, mountain-ash, oak, plum and willow.
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Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.535 inches (.039 m)

Prey / Diet

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1Auditory influences on the flight behaviour of moths in a Nearctic site. I. Flight tendency, Scott B. Morrill and James H. Fullard, CAN. J. ZOOL. VOL. 70, 1992, pp. 1097-1101
2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0