{{Short description|Species of moth}} {{Speciesbox | image = Euxoa_eruta.jpg | image_caption = | genus = Euxoa | species = eruta | authority = ([[Jacob Hübner|Hübner]], [1817]) | synonyms = *''Noctua eruta'' <small>Hübner, [1817]</small> }}

'''''Euxoa eruta''''' is a [[moth]] of the family [[Noctuidae]]. It is found in [[Italy]], [[Spain]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Denmark]], [[Fennoscandia]], [[Austria]], [[Switzerland]], [[Hungary]], [[Bulgaria]], the [[Czech Republic]], [[Greece]], [[Turkey]], [[Belarus]], the [[Baltic region]], [[Siberia]] and from central Asia up to the [[Altai Mountains]]. Note that ''E. eruta'' may not be a [[Species problem|good species]]. The ''Euxoa tritici'' complex consists of five sibling species in Europe: ''[[Euxoa tritici]]'' (Linnaeus, 1761), ''[[Euxoa nigrofusca]]'' (Esper, 1788), ''Euxoa eruta'' (Hübner, 1817), ''[[Euxoa diaphora]]'' Boursin, 1928 and ''[[Euxoa segnilis]]'' (Duponchel, 1836). Furthermore, although Fibiger (1997) treated ''[[Euxoa montivaga]]'' differently it belongs to the ''E. tritici'' complex. Differences among the species are subtle, the most important diagnostic characteristics being genitalic. In studies of three of these species, ''E. tritici'', ''E. nigrofusca'' and ''E. eruta'', no support was found for the presence of several morphologically distinguishable species with quantitative morphometric analyses.<ref>Marko Mutanen, 2005 Delimitation difficulties in species splits: a morphometric case study on the Euxoa tritici complex (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) ''Systematic Entomology'' (2005), 30, 632–643 [http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=56280 pdf]</ref>

The [[wingspan]] is 29–38&nbsp;mm. Adults are on wing from June to September.

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110622052936/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=371994 Fauna Europaea] *[http://www2.nrm.se/en/svenska_fjarilar/e/euxoa_eruta.html Swedish Moths]

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[[Category:Euxoa]] [[Category:Moths of Europe]] [[Category:Moths described in 1817]] [[Category:Taxa named by Jacob Hübner]]

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