Lasionycta staudingeri
Creators: name: Crabo, Lars
name: Lafontaine, Donald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Lasionycta
Lasionycta staudingeri

description: <i>Lasionycta staudingeri</i> (Aurivillius) Figs 47–49, 163, 219. Map 13 <i>Anarta schoenherri</i> Staudinger, 1861: 373, not Zetterstedt, 1839. <i>Anarta staudingeri</i> Aurivillius, 1891a: 176. Replacement name for <i>Anarta schoenherri</i> Staudinger. <i>Lasiestra staudingeri</i>; McDunnough 1938: 71. <i>Hada staudingeri</i>; Hartig and Heinicke 1973: 193. <i>Lasionycta staudingeri</i>; Lafontaine et al. 1986: 261. <i>Anarta zemblica</i> Hampson, 1905: 47, <b>syn. n.</b> <i>Anarta preblei</i> Benjamin, 1933: 59. <i>Lasiestra leucocycla preblei</i>; McDunnough 1938: 72. <i>Lasiestra preblei</i>; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 149. <i>Lasionycta staudingeri preblei</i>; Lafontaine et al. 1986: 261. <i>Lasionycta staudingeri sajanensis</i> Kononenko, 1986, in Lafontaine et al. 1986: 263. Extralimital <b>Type material.</b> <i>Anarta staudingeri</i>: <b>holotype</b> [NHRS, not examined]. Type locality: Dovre, Norway. <i>Anarta zemblica</i>: <b>holotype</b> &amp;female; [BMNH, examined]. Type locality: Shuberta Bay, Zovaya Zembla, Russia. <i>Anarta preblei</i>: <b>holotype</b> ♁ [USNM, examined]. Type locality: St. Paul Island, Alaska. <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>Lasionycta staudingeri</i> is a small arctic species with a mottled dark-gray forewing. Th e hindwing is typical for the sub-group, although those of some specimens are heavily suffused with black. Males of <i>L</i>. <i>staudingeri</i>, <i>L</i>. <i>subfumosa</i>, and <i>L</i>. <i>dolosa</i> differ from other <i>Lasionycta</i> in having a corona comprised of an irregular double row of setae. Th e base of the cucullus is mildly constricted and the digitus is small and shaped like an equilateral triangle. Females have a small corpus bursae with a weak mesial constriction. <i>Lasionycta staudingeri</i> and <i>L</i>. <i>subfumosa</i> are arctic species whereas <i>L</i>. <i>dolosa</i> occurs in Colorado. North American <i>L</i>. <i>staudingeri</i> belong to subspecies <i>preblei</i> (Benjamin) characterized by olive patches on the forewing and dark suffusion on the basal hindwing, features absent in <i>L</i>. <i>subfumosa</i>. <i>Lasionycta staudingeri</i> is also darker gray than <i>L</i>. <i>subfumosa</i>. <i>Lasionycta staudingeri</i> is similar to <i>L</i>. <i>leucocycla</i> with which it occurs. It can be separated from <i>L</i>. <i>leucocycla</i> without dissection by the absence of an ocellus in the orbicular spot (present in <i>L</i>. <i>leucocycla</i>), and by a more bipectinate male antenna (&gt; 2× central shaft width in <i>L</i>. <i>staudingeri</i>; &lt;2× shaft in <i>L</i>. <i>leucocycla</i>). <b>Distribution and biology.</b> <i>Lasionycta staudingeri</i> is Holarctic and the nominate subspecies occurs in Eurasia. In North America <i>L</i>. <i>s</i>. <i>preblei</i> is widely distributed north of the 60th parallel. This subspecies also occurs in the eastern Palaearctic (Lafontaine et al. 1986). <i>Lasionycta staudingeri</i> is diurnal and flies over dry scree tundra. Adults have been collected from late June to mid-August. The larva of <i>L</i>. <i>staudingeri</i> feeds on <i>Empetrum nigrum</i> L. in Finland and was described by Lafontaine et al. (1986). It is polyphagous when reared (Ahola and Silvonen 2008). <b>Remarks.</b> We follow Lafontaine et al. (1986) in treating North American populations as conspecific with Eurasian populations, although this has not been evaluated by DNA sequencing. <i>Lasionycta subfumosa</i> from Victoria Island and Alaska and <i>L</i>. <i>dolosa</i> from Colorado were previously treated as subspecies of <i>L</i>. <i>staudingeri</i> (Lafontaine et al. 1986).
description: Published as part of <i>Crabo, Lars &amp; 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)</i> on pages 59-60, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.30.308, http://zenodo.org/record/576576
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