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Rascal Dart
Agrotis malefida
The Rascal Dart or Palesided Cutworm (Agrotis malefida) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from North Carolina and Kentucky south to Florida, west to Arizona, and north to southern Kansas. It is also found in the Neotropics from Mexico to Argentina and Chile.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 212869.