{{Short description|Species of moth}} {{Speciesbox | image = Euxoa aurulenta.jpg | taxon = Euxoa aurulenta | authority = (Smith, 1888) | synonyms = * ''Agrotis aurulenta'' <small>Smith, 1890</small> * ''Euxoa aurulentoides'' <small>(Strand, 1916)</small> }}

'''''Euxoa aurulenta''''', commonly known as the '''dune cutworm''', is a species of [[moth]] in the family [[Noctuidae]]. The species was [[Species description|first described]] by Smith in 1888. It is found in North America from [[Ontario]] west to [[Alberta]] and [[Washington (state)|Washington]], south to [[Illinois]], [[Nebraska]], [[Colorado]] and [[Arizona]].

The [[wingspan]] is 35–39&nbsp;mm. Adults are on wing in May to July. There is one generation per year.

The larvae probably feed on species of dune grass. In Michigan specimens have been collected near the beach grasses ''[[Ammophila breviligulata]]'' and ''[[Calmovilfa longifolia]]''.

==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite web |author=Anweiler, G. G. |date=November 14, 2003 |url=https://search.museums.ualberta.ca/g/2-3732 |title=Species Details ''Euxoa aurulenta'' |website=[[University of Alberta]] Museums |publisher=E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum |access-date=November 15, 2020}} *{{cite web |url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=10716 |title=933330.00 – 10716 – ''Euxoa aurulenta'' – (Smith, 1888) |website=North American Moth Photographers Group |publisher=Mississippi State University |access-date=November 15, 2020}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20091222184743/http://web4.msue.msu.edu/mnfi/abstracts/zoology/Euxoa_aurulenta.pdf "''Euxoa aurulenta'' (Smith) dune cutworm"]. ''Michigan Natural Features Inventory''. Retrieved November 15, 2020.

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[[Category:Euxoa]] [[Category:Moths of North America]] [[Category:Moths described in 1888]]

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