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Lasionycta leucocycla subsp. leucocycla leucocycla (Staudinger

  • 1. Washington State University, Bellingham, United States of America
  • 2. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Description

Lasionycta leucocycla leucocycla (Staudinger)

Figs 19–22. Map 6

Anarta leucocycla Staudinger, 1857: 296.

The nominate subspecies occurs in arctic North America from Greenland and Ellesmere Island west to northern Yukon. It has a brown-gray forewing and a slightly brownish off-white hindwing, usually with a large discal spot both the dorsal and ventral surfaces. Th e maculation tends to be obscure with slight blurring of the lines and spots.

Notes

Published as part of Crabo, Lars & Lafontaine, Donald, 2009, A Revision of Lasionycta Aurivillius (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) for North America and notes on Eurasian species, with descriptions of 17 new species, 6 new subspecies, a new genus, and two new species of Tricholita Grote, pp. 1-156 in ZooKeys 30 (30) on page 34, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.30.308, http://zenodo.org/record/576576

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Lasionycta
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Staudinger
Species
leucocycla
Taxon rank
subSpecies

References

  • Staudinger O (1857) Beitrag zur Kenntniss der nordischen Anarta - Arten. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 18: 289 - 298.