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Feltia tricosa

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 4, 2021
Entity authorityQ5442660 ↗
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Feltia tricosa, the tricose dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in central North America, north to Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba.

The wingspan is about 35 mm. Adults are on wing from July to September in the north.

The larvae probably feed on a wide variety of plants.

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This entry incorporates text from “Feltia tricosa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.