Lasionycta coloradensis 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 coloradensis

description: <i>Lasionycta coloradensis</i> (Richards), stat. rev. Figs 37, 152, 208. Map 8 <i>Lasiestra coloradensis</i> Richards, 1943: 85. <i>Lasionycta leucocycla coloradensis</i>; Lafontaine et al. 1986: 257. <b>Type material.</b> <i>Lasiestra coloradensis</i>: <b>holotype</b> ♁ [ANSP, examined]. Type locality: Colorado Springs, Colorado. <b>Diagnosis.</b> This species has similar markings to <i>L</i>. <i>poca</i> but both wings are brown, lesser so in the northern part of its range than in Colorado. Th e hindwing is light brown with a suffusion of dark scales. Some specimens are larger than those of <i>L</i>. <i>poca</i>. In Colorado <i>L</i>. <i>coloradensis</i> is most similar to unstreaked specimens of <i>L</i>. <i>benjamini medaminosa</i> ssp. n. Differences between them are described under <i>L</i>. <i>b</i>. <i>medaminosa</i>. <i>Lasionycta coloradensis</i> is superficially similar to <i>Hadena lafontainei</i> Troubridge and Crabo, also found in Colorado, but is easily differentiated by obvious genitalic differences (those of <i>H</i>. <i>lafontainei</i> are illustrated by Troubridge and Crabo (2002)). The CO1 DNA sequences of <i>L</i>. <i>coloradensis</i> (Wyoming) and <i>L</i>. <i>poca</i> (Alberta, British Columbia, Washington, and Yukon Territory) differ by 0.85 %. The sequences are distinct without variation or shared haplotypes for all specimens sampled (Fig. 248), a total of three samples for <i>L</i>. <i>coloradensis</i> and five for <i>L</i>. <i>poca</i>. This difference in DNA, in conjunction with those in phenotype and biogeography, suggest that <i>L</i>. <i>coloradensis</i> is best treated as a species distinct from <i>L</i>. <i>poca</i>. <b>Distribution and biology.</b> <i>Lasionycta coloradensis</i> occurs in the Rocky Mountains from the Montana-Wyoming border to New Mexico. <b>Remarks.</b> Lafontaine et al. (1986) treated <i>L</i>. <i>coloradensis</i> as a subspecies of <i>L</i>. <i>leucocycla</i>. Structural and genetic differences between these species are similar to those distinguishing <i>L</i>. <i>poca</i> and <i>L</i>. <i>leucocycla</i>. <i>L</i>. <i>coloradensis</i> is sympatric with <i>L</i>. <i>leucocycla albertensis</i> on the Beartooth Plateau near the Montana-Wyoming border. We consider <i>L</i>. <i>coloradensis</i> and <i>L</i>. <i>poca</i> to be species rather than subspecies for reasons given in the Diagnosis section.
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 41-42, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.30.308, http://zenodo.org/record/576576
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