{{Short description|Species of moth}} {{Speciesbox | image = Euxoa_rossica.jpg | image_caption = | genus = Euxoa | species = ochrogaster | authority = ([[Achille Guenée|Guenée]], 1852) | synonyms = *''Euxoa rossica'' *''Noctua ochrogaster'' <small>Guenée, 1852</small> *''Agrotis insignata'' <small>Walker, [1857] </small> *''Agrotis illata'' <small>Walker, 1857</small> *''Agrotis subsignata'' <small>Walker, 1865</small> *''Agrotis cinereomacula'' <small>Morrison, 1875</small> *''Agrotis turris'' <small>Grote, 1875</small> *''Agrotis gularis'' <small>Grote, 1875</small> *''Agrotis islandica'' <small>Staudinger, 1857</small> }}
'''''Euxoa ochrogaster''''', the '''red-backed cutworm''', is a [[moth]] of the family [[Noctuidae]]. It is found from [[Iceland]] and northern [[Europe]], through the [[Baltic region|Baltic]] to the [[Amur region]]. In North America, it is found from [[Alaska]] to [[Newfoundland and Labrador]], south into the northern part of the [[United States]], south in [[Rocky Mountains]] to [[Arizona]] and [[New Mexico]].
Adults are on wing from the end of July to beginning of September.
The larvae feed on a variety of broad leaf plants and grasses, including ''[[Plantago]]'' species. The species is economically important on ''[[Helianthus annuus]]'' in North America.
The moths can be affected by a fungus ''Tarichium megaspermum'' (from order [[Entomophthorales]]), in [[British Columbia]], Canada.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Bucher |first1=G.E. |last2=MacLeod |first2=D.M. |date=March 1974 |title=Rediscovery of ''Tarichium megaspermum'' (Entomophthoraceae) in Canadian cutworms (Noctuidae) |journal=Journal of Invertebrate Pathology |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=157–163 |doi=10.1016/0022-2011(74)90179-7}}</ref>
==Subspecies== *''Euxoa ochrogaster ochrogaster'' *''Euxoa ochrogaster islandica'' (Iceland) *''Euxoa ochrogaster rossica'' (Lithuania to Amur)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110622060944/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=371962 Fauna Europaea] *[https://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=10801 Images] *[https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~gefauske/ndmoths/names/10801.htm Moths of North Dakota]
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[[Category:Euxoa]] [[Category:Moths described in 1852]] [[Category:Moths of North America]] [[Category:Moths of Europe]] [[Category:Moths of Asia]] [[Category:Moths of Iceland]] [[Category:Taxa named by Achille Guenée]]
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