# Euxoa ochrogaster

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Species of moth

Euxoa ochrogaster Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Clade: Pancrustacea Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Superfamily: Noctuoidea Family: Noctuidae Genus: Euxoa Species: E. ochrogaster Binomial name Euxoa ochrogaster (Guenée, 1852) Synonyms Euxoa rossica Noctua ochrogaster Guenée, 1852 Agrotis insignata Walker, [1857] Agrotis illata Walker, 1857 Agrotis subsignata Walker, 1865 Agrotis cinereomacula Morrison, 1875 Agrotis turris Grote, 1875 Agrotis gularis Grote, 1875 Agrotis islandica Staudinger, 1857

***Euxoa ochrogaster***, the **red-backed cutworm**, is a [moth](/source/Moth) of the family [Noctuidae](/source/Noctuidae). It is found from [Iceland](/source/Iceland) and northern [Europe](/source/Europe), through the [Baltic](/source/Baltic_region) to the [Amur region](/source/Amur_region). In North America, it is found from [Alaska](/source/Alaska) to [Newfoundland and Labrador](/source/Newfoundland_and_Labrador), south into the northern part of the [United States](/source/United_States), south in [Rocky Mountains](/source/Rocky_Mountains) to [Arizona](/source/Arizona) and [New Mexico](/source/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](/source/Plantago)* species. The species is economically important on *[Helianthus annuus](/source/Helianthus_annuus)* in North America.

The moths can be affected by a fungus *Tarichium megaspermum* (from order [Entomophthorales](/source/Entomophthorales)), in [British Columbia](/source/British_Columbia), Canada.[1]

## Subspecies

- *Euxoa ochrogaster ochrogaster*

- *Euxoa ochrogaster islandica* (Iceland)

- *Euxoa ochrogaster rossica* (Lithuania to Amur)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Bucher, G.E.; MacLeod, D.M. (March 1974). "Rediscovery of *Tarichium megaspermum* (Entomophthoraceae) in Canadian cutworms (Noctuidae)". *Journal of Invertebrate Pathology*. **23** (2): 157–163. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1016/0022-2011(74)90179-7](https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0022-2011%2874%2990179-7).

## External links

- [Fauna Europaea](https://web.archive.org/web/20110622060944/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=371962)

- [Images](https://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=10801)

- [Moths of North Dakota](https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~gefauske/ndmoths/names/10801.htm)

Taxon identifiers Euxoa ochrogaster Wikidata: Q5414851 BAMONA: Euxoa-ochrogaster BioLib: 54612 BOLD: 89734 BugGuide: 688807 EoL: 444617 EPPO: EUXOOC Fauna Europaea: 448533 Fauna Europaea (new): 9877650a-321a-4d96-a6b1-698c09d17397 GBIF: 1772977 iNaturalist: 219979 IRMNG: 10871082 ITIS: 117388 LepIndex: 249746 MONA: 10801 NatureServe: 2.743247 NCBI: 1341263 Observation.org: 185327 Open Tree of Life: 3206603

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