Moths of North Carolina
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1 NC Records

Dichagyris broui Lafontaine, 2004 - No Common Name

Taxonomy
Superfamily: Noctuoidea Family: NoctuidaeSubfamily: NoctuinaeTribe: NoctuiniP3 Number: 933253.00 MONA Number: 10701.10
Comments: Prior to Lafontaine's revision (Lafontaine, 2004), this genus name was used only for Eurasian species. Lafontaine found that several North American species previously associated with the genera Loxagrotis, Pseudoseptis, Pseudorthosia, and some species of Richia are structurally similar to Dichagyris and he consequently treated them as North American genera subgenera of Dichagyris. Twenty-six species are currently listed on MPG with the majority occurring in the West. Only four have been recorded east of the Mississippi, with only one found in North Carolina.
Identification
Field Guide Descriptions: Online Photographs: MPG, BugGuide, iNaturalist, Google, BAMONA, GBIF, BOLDTechnical Description, Adults: Lafontaine (2004)                                                                                 
Structural photos
Adult ID Requirements: Identifiable from good quality photos of unworn specimens.
Distribution in North Carolina
Distribution: Currently recorded at only a single site in the Fall-line Sandhills
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Flight Dates:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

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Habitats and Life History
Habitats: This species has so far only been collected in a Pea-Swale in the Fall-line Sandhills.
Larval Host Plants: The immature stages and larval host are unknown (Lafontaine, 2003), but the few other species in this genus where this information exists, the larvae are associated with grasses. - View
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Status in North Carolina
Natural Heritage Program Status: [SR]
Natural Heritage Program Ranks: [GNR] S1S2
State Protection:
Comments: This species has not been ranked by NatureServe (Explorer, accessed 2023-12-02) but appears to be globally rare; currently, it appears to have been recorded only in a small area along the Gulf Coast and in the Fall-line Sandhills of North Carolina.

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Recorded by: J.B. Sullivan on 2020-09-09
Scotland Co.
Comment: First specimen of this species collected in North Carolina