Agrotis ruta Eversmann 1851

Local and rarely collected.

July.

Holarctic. In North America it has a northern distribution, occurring from AK and YT to Labrador; south to Northern MB and BC, and in the Rocky Mountains to southern AB. In Alberta it has been collected in the mountains from just north of Calgary to the Grande Cache area.

A medium-sized (4.0 - 4.6 cm. wingspan) light brown to purple-grey moth with dark markings. Veins in median area whitish. Lines single, black. AM line broken and dentate, when visible below anal vein, looping far out. PM line a row of spots, ST of blackish wedges. Spots normal, black outlined, the orbicular sometimes and reniform usually filled.with dark scales. Claviform a short black bar, long loop or wedge. Hindwings pale brown. Antennae subpectinate on one side of shaft, serrate on other. Sexes similar.

Boreal forest and wet shrubby tundra.

unknown.

Agrotis ruta is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1851. It has a Holarctic distribution. In North America it has a northern distribution, occurring from Alaska and the Yukon Territory to Labrador, south to northern Manitoba and British Columbia, and in the Rocky Mountains to southern Alberta. Furthermore, it can be found in the northern Urals, Siberia, Mongolia, China and Japan.

Agrotis patula was placed in synonymy with Agrotis ruta by Kononenko et al. in 1989.

The wingspan is 40–46 mm.