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

description: <i>Lasionycta subdita</i> (Möschler) Figs 9, 140, 198. Map 3 <i>Dianthoecia subdita</i> Möschler, 1860: 363. <i>Mamestra subdita</i>; Smith 1893a: 129. <i>Lasionycta subdita</i>; McDunnough 1938: 71. <i>Anarta membrosa</i> Morrison, 1875a: 101. <i>Anarta membranosa</i>; Smith 1893a: 294, misspelling. <i>Lasionycta membrosa</i>; McDunnough 1938: 71. <b>Type material.</b> <i>Dianthoecia subdita</i>: <b>holotype</b> ♁ [ZMHB, not examined]. Type locality: Labrador. <i>Anarta membrosa</i>: <b>type</b> lost. Type locality: New Hampshire. The type is presumed lost but the name was synonymized with <i>L</i>. <i>subdita</i> by Lafontaine and Kononenko (1988) based on details of the original description. <b>Diagnosis.</b> This northeastern species can be identified by a combination of lightgray forewing with black orbicular and reniform spots filled with pale-gray scales, black claviform spot, and mottled distal forewing with a checkered fringe. It is most likely to be confused with <i>L</i>. <i>taigata</i>, also found in northeastern North America, but is readily distinguished from it by differences in the genitalia given in the key to species-groups. The male digitus bears a stout basal spine. Th ose of the other species in the speciesgroup have a broad basal flange. Females have a rounder corpus bursae and more blunt appendix bursae than the western species. The CO1 DNA of <i>L</i>. <i>subdita</i> differs by more than 1.8 % from that of <i>L</i>. <i>conjugata</i> (Smith) and <i>L</i>. <i>fergusoni</i> sp. n. <b>Distribution and biology.</b> <i>Lasionycta subdita</i> is predominantly a subarctic species. It occurs across Labrador, Quebec, and Ontario to Churchill, Manitoba on the west shore of Hudson Bay. A disjunct population is in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Th e adults are nocturnal and come to light. Th ey have been collected in July.
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 17-18, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.30.308, http://zenodo.org/record/576576
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