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

description: <i>Lasionycta subfuscula</i> (Grote) Figs 116–122, 161, 162, 217, 218. Map 12 <i>Anarta subfuscula</i> Grote, 1874b: 244. <i>Lasionycta subfuscula</i>; McDunnough 1938: 71. <i>Scotogramma sedilis</i> Smith, 1899: 43, <b>syn. n.</b> <i>Lasionycta sedilis</i>; McDunnough 1938: 71. <b>Type Material.</b> <i>Anarta subfuscula</i>: <b>holotype</b> &amp;female; [BMNH, examined]. Type locality: Colorado Territory. <i>Scotogramma sedilis</i>: <b>lectotype</b> &amp;female; [USNM, examined]. Type locality: Garfield County, Colorado. Th e lectotype female was designated by Todd (1982: 192). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Males of <i>L</i>. <i>subfuscula</i> are unmistakable due to their wide bipectinate antennae (almost 5× shaft diameter). Females have a unique angled corpus bursae described in the <i>L</i>. <i>subfuscula</i> sub-group description. Females are difficult to separate from those of the <i>L</i>. <i>perplexa</i> sub-group without dissection, especially <i>L</i>. <i>perplexa</i> that is similar in size. Useful characters for differentiating them are listed under <i>L</i>. <i>perplexa</i>. In addition, the claviform spot of <i>L</i>. <i>subfuscula</i> is usually shorter than that of <i>L</i>. <i>perplexa</i>. <i>Lasionycta subfuscula</i> is less diffi cult to distinguish from <i>L</i>. <i>perplexella</i> and <i>L</i>. <i>subalpina</i> because females of these species tend to be smaller. The CO1 sequences of <i>Lasionycta subfuscula</i> demonstrate larger differences than those of other <i>Lasionycta</i> species. Six haplotypes exist which differ by up to 2.09 % (Fig. 248). <b>Distribution and biology.</b> <i>Lasionycta subfuscula</i> occurs from southwestern British Columbia and southwestern Alberta south to southern Oregon in the West and to southern Colorado and Utah in the Rocky Mountains. Adults fly in transition zone and subalpine forests. It has been collected from mid-June to early September. <b>Geographical variation.</b> Populations of <i>L</i>. <i>subfuscula</i> are arranged in two subspecies.
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 56, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.30.308, http://zenodo.org/record/576576
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