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

description: <i>Lasionycta skraelingia</i> (Herrich-Schäffer) Figs 1–3, 136, 194. Map 1 <i>Phlogophora skraelingia</i> Herrich-Schäffer, 1852: 57. <i>Lasionycta skraelingia</i>; Aurivillius 1892b: 285. <i>Mamestra skraelingia</i>; Staudinger and Rebel 1901: 159. <i>Lasionycta scraelingia</i>; Hampson 1905: 56. Invalid emendation. <i>Lasionycta skroelingia</i>; Warren 1910: 85. Misspelling. <i>Hada skraelingia</i>; Hartig and Heinicke 1973: 193. <i>Lasionycta skraelingia</i>; Lafontaine et al. 1986: 255. <b>Type material. Type</b> : lost. Th e original description is suffi cient to characterize the species (Lafontaine and Kononenko 1988). Type locality: Lapland. <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>Lasionycta skraelingia</i> is distinguished from <i>L</i>. <i>taigata</i> Lafontaine by its undulating antemedial line (irregular in <i>L</i>. <i>taigata</i>) and more even gray forewing (mottled in <i>L</i>. <i>taigata</i>). The cucullus of the male valve is larger in <i>L</i>. <i>skraelingia</i> than in <i>L</i>. <i>taigata</i>, and the digitus is very short. Th e female genitalia are similar, but the appendix bursae of <i>L</i>. <i>skraelingia</i> is shorter than that of <i>L</i>. <i>taigata</i>. Th e CO1 sequence of <i>L</i>. <i>skraelingia</i> is identical to one of several <i>L</i>. <i>taigata</i> haplotypes. <b>Distribution and biology.</b> <i>Lasionycta skraelingia</i> is Holarctic, occurring from Scandinavia to northwestern North America. In North America this species is known from three specimens from Windy Pass, Ogilvie Mountains, Yukon. Th e adults are crepuscular and fly rapidly over small spruces. Th ey are collected by hand netting, rarely if ever coming to a light. Dates are from late June to early July. In Scandinavia the species is polyphagous when reared and has been fed on <i>Betula nana</i> L. (Betulaceae), <i>Polygonum aviculare</i> L. (Polygonaceae), and <i>Vaccinium uligonosum</i> L. (Ericaceae) (Ahola and Silvonen 2008). Th ese authors report that Eurasian populations are biennial, likely also the case in North America. The Yukon specimens were been collected in two odd-numbered years.
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 12-13, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.30.308, http://zenodo.org/record/576576
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