Panthea acronyctoides subsp. acronyctoides acronyctoides (Walker
Creators: name: Anweiler, Gary G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pantheidae
Panthea
Panthea acronyctoides
Panthea acronyctoides acronyctoides (walker)

description: <i>Panthea acronyctoides acronyctoides</i> (Walker) Figs. 36-38, 53, 64, 72 <i>Audela acronyctoides</i> Walker, 1861: 37. <i>Panthea leucomelana</i> Morrison, 1876: 428. <i>Diphthera acronyctoides</i> (Walker); Draudt 1924 In: Seitz 1924: 18 <i>Panthea acronyctoides</i> <b>(</b> Walker <b>)</b>; McDunnough 1937: 153; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 134. <i>Panthea acronyctoides albosuffusa</i> McDunnough, 1937: 153; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 134. <b>New synonomy</b>. <b>Type material.</b> <i>Audela acronyctoides</i>: Holotype male, Montcalm Co., Quebec, Canada, in CNC. The holotype male is in poor condition (photograph examined). <i>Panthea leucomelana</i>: described by Morrison from 2 specimens, from Maine and New Hampshire. According to Smith (1893), Morrison’s type is in the Tepper collection, which resides in MSU. There is a single specimen, from “ Maine ” in the Tepper collection at MSU, presumed to be one of the two Morrison types; the other specimen is apparently lost (Wilterding 1997). The Maine specimen bears a Lectotype label placed there by J. H. Wilterding; however this action was never published (Wilterding pers. comm.). I hereby designate this specimen as <b>Lectotype</b> of <i>P. leucomelana</i> Morrison. A label printed on red cardstock reading “ LECTOTYPE ”/ <i>Panthea</i> / <i>leucomelana</i> Morrison / G.G. Anweiler ” will be affixed to this specimen. <i>Panthea acronyctoides</i> var. <i>albosuffusa</i> <i>.</i> Holotype male, White Point Beach, Queen’s Co., Nova Scotia, Canada (in CNC, type #4223). The holotype and 3 ♁ 3 &amp;female; paratypes from Nova Scotia, Canada in CNC (examined). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Throughout most of its range, nominate <i>Panthea acronyctoides</i> can be recognized by smaller size and black and white or gray and white pattern. The only other <i>Panthea</i> species occurring with nominate <i>P</i>. <i>acronyctoides</i> is <i>P. furcilla</i>, a larger and darker gray and black species. In western North America, ssp. <i>nigra</i> <i>,</i> occurs with both <i>P. greyi</i> and <i>P. virginarius.</i> Both subspecies of <i>P</i>. <i>acronyctoides</i> can be separated from all other <i>Panthea</i> by the combination of a small spine and a second long thin spine on the male vesica, and smooth-walled ductus bursae with an expanded rim in the female. <b>Remarks.</b> Although described as a subspecies by McDunnough, <i>albosuffusa</i> is clearly a form as pointed by Forbes (1954), who refers to a brood reared from eggs produced by a female <i>albosuffusa</i> that produced about ¼ <i>albosuffusa</i>, ¼ typical and ½ melanic specimens (Forbes 1954). Specimens of small dark dwarfed populations of <i>P</i>. <i>acronyctoides</i> have been seen from bogs in the southern four tiers of counties in Michigan. These are much smaller and darker than <i>P</i>. <i>acronyctoides</i> found elsewhere, and are possibly environmentally induced by the cool wet habitat they occupy. The genitalia of these specimens do not differ from those of typical <i>P</i>. <i>acronyctodes</i> except in size. <b>Distribution and biology.</b> Nominate <i>P</i>. <i>acronyctoides</i> is found throughout much of the wooded parts of eastern and northern North America, from northern Georgia north to Newfoundland and Nunavut, west across the northeastern tier of states and southern and central Canada to Alberta. It intergrades with ssp. <i>nigra</i> in central Alberta (Fig. 72). Nominate <i>P</i>. <i>acronyctoides</i> occupies a range of coniferous habitats, including spruce, larch, fir and mixed forest. The larva of <i>P. acronyctoides</i> is described and illustrated by Brown and McGuffin (1942).
description: Published as part of <i>Anweiler, Gary G., 2009, Revision of the New World Panthea Hübner (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) with descriptions of 5 new species and 2 new subspecies, pp. 97-134 in ZooKeys 9 (9)</i> on pages 117-118, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.9.157, http://zenodo.org/record/576456
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