Agrotis bigramma

Agrotis bigramma, the great dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1790. It is found from along the southern shores of the Baltic Sea to China, the Levant and North Africa. Migrants have been reported as far west as Great Britain with three in one trap at St Agnes, Isles of Scilly on 10 August 1997.[1]

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Agrotis bigramma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Noctuidae
Genus:
Agrotis
Species:
A. bigramma
Binomial name
Agrotis bigramma
(Esper, 1790)
Synonyms
  • Agrotis crassa (Hübner, 1803)
  • Noctua crassa Hübner, 1803
  • Euxoa crassa
  • Euxoa golickei
  • Euxoa lata

The wingspan is 40–48 mm. Adults are on wing from September to December. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on the roots of Poaceae species and other low growing herbaceous plants.

References
  1. Kimber, Ian. "Great Dart Agrotis bigramma". UKMoths. Retrieved 15 December 2018.


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