Abagrotis magnicupida

Abagrotis magnicupida
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Abagrotis
Species:	A. magnicupida
Binomial name
Abagrotis magnicupida Lafontaine, 1998

Abagrotis magnicupida, the one-dotted dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by J. Donald Lafontaine in 1998. It is found from southern Massachusetts west to Illinois, eastern Missouri and central Nebraska, south to North Carolina, Tennessee, northern Mississippi and eastern Texas.

The wingspan is about 40 mm. Adults are on wing in September. There is one generation per year.

The larvae are general feeders on both herbaceous and (in spring) woody plants. Larvae have been reared on Prunus virginiana.

References

• Wagner, David L.; Schweitzer, Dale F.; Sullivan, J. Bolling & Reardon, Richard C. (2011). Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691150420.
• "933686.00 – 11043.1 – Abagrotis magnicupida – One-dotted Dart – Lafontaine, 1998". North American Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
• Pogue, Michael G. (2006). "The Noctuinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A." Zootaxa. 1215: 1-95. ISBN 978-1-86977-001-3.