Protolampra brunneicollis

Protolampra brunneicollis, the brown-collared dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1864. It is found in eastern North America from New Brunswick to Alberta in southern Canada, and in the United States from Maine to North Carolina and Tennessee west to Mississippi, north to Minnesota, with scattered records in the west from North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana.

Protolampra brunneicollis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Protolampra
Species:	P. brunneicollis
Binomial name
Protolampra brunneicollis (Grote, 1864)
Synonyms
Noctua brunneicollis Grote, 1864

The wingspan is about 35 mm. Adults are on wing from June to September. There are possibly two generations per year or one with adults aestivating.

The larvae feed on a wide range of herbaceous and woody, low-growing plants including blueberry, clover, dandelion, sweet-fern, and tobacco. Larvae have been reared on Vaccinium, Taraxacum officinale and Comptonia peregrina.

References

• Wagner, David L.; Schweitzer, Dale F.; Sullivan, J. Bolling & Reardon, Richard C. (2011). Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691150420.
• McLeod, Robin (September 23, 2014). "Species Protolampra brunneicollis - Brown-collared Dart - Hodges#11006". BugGuide. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
• Pogue, Michael G. (2006). "The Noctuinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A." Zootaxa. 1215: 1-95.
• "Species Details Protolampra brunneicollis". University of Alberta Museums. E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
• "933649.00 – 11006 – Protolampra brunneicollis – Brown-collared Dart Moth – (Grote, 1865)". North American Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University. Retrieved March 24, 2020.