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
Author
Crabo, Lars
Washington State University, Bellingham, United States of America
Author
Lafontaine, Donald
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada
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ZooKeys
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Lasionycta leucocycla moeschleri
(Staudinger)
Figs 23, 146, 203. Map 6
Anarta leucocycla
var.
moeschleri
Staudinger, 1901
; in
Staudinger and Rebel 1901: 219
.
Lasionycta
l
.
moeschleri
(Staudinger) occurs in eastern
Canada
from the east coast of Hudson Bay and southern Labrador north to the arctic islands near the Ungava Peninsula,
Quebec
. It is similar to subspecies
leucocycla
but has a more crisply marked dark-gray to black forewing with pale better defined orbicular and reniform spots and a purer white hindwing. Subspecies
moeschleri
is most similar to
L
.
staudingeri
of all
L
.
leucocycla
due to its white hindwing color. Th ey are sympatric on Baffin Island. Differences between them are given in the key and
L
.
leucocycla
Diagnosis section.