Lasionycta flanda Crabo &amp; Lafontaine 2009, stat. rev.
Creators: name: Crabo, Lars
name: Lafontaine, Donald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Lasionycta
Lasionycta flanda

description: <i>Lasionycta flanda</i> (Smith), stat. rev. Figs 30, 148, 204. Map 9 <i>Anarta flanda</i> Smith, 1908: 111. <i>Lasiestra leucocycla flanda</i>; McDunnough 1938: 71. <i>Lasionycta leucocycla flanda</i>; Lafontaine et al. 1986: 257. <b>Type material.</b> <b>Lectotype</b> ♁ [AMNH, examined]. Type locality: Newfoundland. Th e male lectotype was designated by Todd (1982: 84). <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>Lasionycta flanda</i> resembles <i>L</i>. <i>leucocycla</i> but has a yellow-brown hindwing and blue-gray forewing with patches of yellow scales. It has narrow biserrate male antenna and genitalia indistinguishable from those of <i>L</i>. <i>leucocycla</i>, but the eye is rounded, normal in size, whereas those of <i>L</i>. <i>leucocycla</i> are reduced in size. <i>Lasionycta flanda</i> is restricted to Newfoundland and Labrador. It is only likely to be confused with <i>L</i>. <i>l</i>. <i>moeschleri</i> in Labrador but can be distinguished by hindwing color and eye size. <i>Lasionycta flanda</i> tends to be larger than <i>L</i>. <i>l</i>. <i>moeschleri</i> (12–13 mm for <i>L</i>. <i>flanda</i> males compared with 10–12 mm for <i>L</i>. <i>l</i>. <i>moeschleri</i> males). Th e female bursa is similar to that of <i>L</i>. <i>leucocycla</i> but is larger. The single available <i>L</i>. <i>flanda</i> CO1 sequence of is identical to that of <i>L</i>. <i>anthracina</i> and similar to those of <i>L</i>. <i>leucocycla</i>. <b>Distribution and biology.</b> <i>Lasionycta flanda</i> is found on the island of Newfoundland and at Goose Bay in eastern Labrador and occurs on tundra. It has been collected from mid-July to early August. It is nocturnal and comes to light (D. Macaulay pers. comm.). <b>Remarks.</b> Lafontaine et al. (1986) treated <i>L</i>. <i>flanda</i> as an endemic Newfoundland subspecies of <i>L</i>. <i>leucocycla</i>, but the taxa are sympatric in Labrador. Two typical, dusky <i>L</i>. <i>flanda</i> females with round eyes from Goose Bay were found amongst <i>L</i>. <i>l</i>. <i>moeschleri</i> at the CNC. <i>Lasionycta leucocycla</i> from nearby Cartwright and Hopedale have reduced ellipsoid eyes and white hindwings typical for <i>L</i>. <i>leucocycla moeschleri</i>.
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 page 36, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.30.308, http://zenodo.org/record/576576
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