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<paragraph id="68433F2EF748A1A8881F6DC4855C9DAD" pageId="8" pageNumber="111">Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Noctuidae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="02ED13EF8ED1ED52A380E2E4AA65BE5B" ID-CoL="943Z7" authority="Smith, 1906" authorityName="Smith" authorityYear="1906" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lacinipolia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lacinipolia sareta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="111" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sareta">Lacinipolia sareta (Smith, 1906)</taxonomicName>
Figs 7-15, 59, 67, 73
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sareta
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Smith, 1906: 229.
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<paragraph id="F2F24C79E519193F92E3DC2481FCAD9D" pageId="9" pageNumber="112">Type material.</paragraph>
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lectotype male (AMNH, examined), designated by
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; type locality: Minnehaha, Yavapai Co., Arizona.
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<paragraph id="FCDB76685B35558F54B8D69E7B762D7C" pageId="9" pageNumber="112">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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is the most common and widespread species in the
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group, and most of the identification difficulties are in separating it from
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and
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in the West. This is most reliably done based on genitalia, where males lack the ventrally projecting, paired spinose crests above the juxta that are found in
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and
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; females of
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have a simple ostium with a strongly convex prevaginal margin, compared to those of
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and
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which have an asymmetrical, conch-shaped ostium with a straight prevaginal margin.
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flies earlier in the year (mostly
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) than
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and
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(
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), although the southernmost
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populations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas fly again in late
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after an initial May flight.
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The remaining species (
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,
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, and
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) can, for the most part, be distinguished from
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by geographic distribution; in Washington, Oregon and California, where the range of
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overlaps that of
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,
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is smaller and has a duller white hindwing, in addition to the genitalic characters given under
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. From eastern Colorado and New Mexico through western Oklahoma and northern Texas
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overlaps with
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; characters given in the keys and the
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diagnosis will separate the two. The range of
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might overlap with that of
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in the East (from the Great Lakes region eastward through New York and New England), where the smaller size, different flight period and genitalic differences given under
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will reliably separate the two.
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<paragraph id="45043DE3976A9192787DB0C537AE5AA2" pageId="9" pageNumber="112">Distribution and biology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="14E899E39DA87F182ED1061245CF3DA9" pageId="9" pageNumber="112">
<taxonomicName id="67EA7E09B0A0F57D36EF2FC34890E4F0" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lacinipolia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lacinipolia sareta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="112" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sareta">Lacinipolia sareta</taxonomicName>
occurs throughout western North America from the southern Yukon and Northwest Territories to Texas, Arizona and California; it undoubtedly also occurs in northern Mexico. It ranges eastward across the southern boreal region to at least Quebec, with an unverified record from Maine (
<bibRefCitation id="CA39C1112F572CFDC91BFDD6B61DCD3A" author="Forbes, WTM" journalOrPublisher="Cornell University Agriculture Experiment Station, Memoir" pageId="15" pageNumber="118" pagination="1 - 433" title="Lepidoptera of New York and neighboring states. Part 3 Noctuidae." volume="329" year="1954">Forbes 1954</bibRefCitation>
). Most or all records of
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for Michigan (
<bibRefCitation id="B4624759F44F12804202F848A4C552FE" author="Moore, S" journalOrPublisher="University of Michigan Museum of Zoology" pageId="16" pageNumber="119" title="An annotated list of the moths of Michigan exclusive of Tineoidea (Lepidoptera)." year="1955">Moore 1955</bibRefCitation>
) probably apply to this species, but
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is not known from Ohio (
<bibRefCitation id="2EDC709706626BFC178CD68212753DC2" author="Rings, RW" journalOrPublisher="Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin (New Series)" pageId="16" pageNumber="119" title="The owlet moths of Ohio Order Lepidoptera Family Noctuidae." volume="9" year="1992">Rings et al. 1992</bibRefCitation>
) where it would be expected in sandy habitats along Lake Erie. Although found in a huge variety of woodland, steppe and prairie habitats,
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particularly favours sandy soils and can be abundant in dune and beach habitats.
<bibRefCitation id="D10B1AFD4A7CD476614D0DDD5B1A0B65" author="Crumb, SE" journalOrPublisher="United States Department of Agriculture, Washington" pageId="15" pageNumber="118" title="The larvae of the Phalaenidae" year="1956">Crumb (1956)</bibRefCitation>
describes the ground-dwelling, polyphagous larva (as
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).
<bibRefCitation id="C775DA5B1DE6D4E511AAEB354B26801B" author="Godfrey, GL" journalOrPublisher="United States department of Agriculture" pageId="15" pageNumber="118" title="A review and reclassification of larvae of the subfamily Hadeninae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) of America north of Mexico." year="1972">Godfrey (1972)</bibRefCitation>
illustrates the larva, and states that Arizona and Montana larvae are identical.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="679C17A3C1BA656488A51ACD16846471" pageId="9" pageNumber="112">Remarks.</paragraph>
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The vast geographic range and considerable DNA barcode variation suggest that
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could be a cryptic species complex. Alternatively, DNA barcode variation simply may not be fully congruent with species limits in the group, a phenomenon that occurs in about 10% of
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(
<bibRefCitation id="988D0901F618EC0999564D82F3C5A411" author="Zahiri, R" journalOrPublisher="PLoS ONE" pageId="16" pageNumber="119" title="A transcontinental challenge-a test of DNA barcode performance for 1,541 species of Canadian Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera)." url="10.1371/journal.pone.0092797" volume="9" year="2014">Zahiri et al. 2014</bibRefCitation>
). In contrast to the mtDNA variation, genitalic structure and wing pattern is highly conserved, and I could find no way to segregate specimens with divergent barcodes or those from different ecoregions. The shape of the digitus varies somewhat, with nominate
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from the southwestern United States with a slightly longer, narrower tine-like digitus, compared to most (but not all) northern specimens, which have a shorter more triangular digitus, but the differences are inconsistent and again do not correlate with geographic or molecular differences. This is surprising given that molecular divergence among
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haplogroups was greater than the minimum divergence between
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and
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(Fig. 75), despite the considerable morphological differences between the two species. Studies of pheromone variation, nuclear DNA sequence data, and immature stages would provide more insight into this difficult group.
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