Lasionycta conjugata (Smith)

Crabo, Lars & 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, ZooKeys 30 (30), pp. 1-156 : 18

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https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.30.308

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3790246

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scientific name

Lasionycta conjugata (Smith)
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Lasionycta conjugata (Smith) View in CoL

Figs 10, 141, 199. Map 3

Scotogramma conjugata Smith, 1899: 41 .

Lasionycta conjugata View in CoL ; McDunnough 1938: 71.

Type material. Lectotype ♁ [ USNM, examined]. Type locality: Garfi eld County, Colorado, [ USA]. Th e lectotype was designated by Todd (1982: 54).

Diagnosis. Lasionycta conjugata has a pale-gray forewing with jet-black lines, spots, and bars between the claviform spot and postmedial line and orbicular and reniform spots. It occurs to the south of the range of L. fergusoni . Th is species is similar but its forewing is darker blue gray and lacks the black bars. Th e antennal segments of L. conjugata are triangular whereas those of L. fergusoni are T-shaped with narrow distal segments. The flange of the digitus is less prominent in L. conjugata than in L. fergusoni . Th e female genitalia are similar.

Th e CO1 sequences of L. conjugata and L. fergusoni differ by at least 1.7 %.

Distribution and biology. Lasionycta conjugata occurs in the Rocky Mountains from central Utah and Colorado north to the Beartooth Plateau on the Montana-Wyoming border. It flies in subalpine forests and is nocturnal. Adults have been collected from early July to late August.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Lasionycta

Loc

Lasionycta conjugata (Smith)

Crabo, Lars & Lafontaine, Donald 2009
2009
Loc

Lasionycta conjugata

McDunnough J 1938: 71
1938
Loc

Scotogramma conjugata

Smith JB 1899: 41
1899
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