Lasionycta impingens

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Lasionycta impingens
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Lasionycta impingens impingens male
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Lasionycta impingens impingens female
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Lasionycta
Species:
L. impingens
Binomial name
Lasionycta impingens
(Walker, 1857)
Synonyms
  • Anarta impingensWalker, 1857
  • Lasiestra impingensMcDunnough, 1938
  • Lasionycta impingensLafontaine et al., 1986
  • Mamestra curtaMorrison, 1875a
  • Anarta curtaDyar, 1903
  • Lasiestra impingens curtaMcDunnough, 1938
  • Orthosia perpuraMorrison, 1875b
  • Anarta perpuraDyar, 1903
  • Lasiestra perpuraMcDunnough, 1938
  • Anarta nivariaGrote, 1876
  • Lasiestra nivariaMcDunnough, 1938

Lasionycta impingens is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It occurs from southern Yukon to Colorado.

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Lasionycta impingens curta

It is diurnal. Adults are common in alpine tundra. It feeds on nectar of a Penstemon species on the Beartooth Plateau, Montana, as well as on Mertensia paniculata and a Senecio , likely Senecio lugens at Pink Mountain, British Columbia.

Adults are on wing in July and August.

Subspecies


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<i>Lasionycta fergusoni</i> Species of moth

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<i>Lasionycta mutilata</i> Species of moth

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<i>Lasionycta coracina</i> Species of moth

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<i>Lasionycta poca</i> Species of moth

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<i>Lasionycta illima</i> Species of moth

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<i>Lasionycta frigida</i> Species of moth

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<i>Lasionycta perplexa</i> Species of moth

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<i>Lasionycta subalpina</i> Species of moth

Lasionycta subalpina is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from southern Idaho and the Beartooth Plateau on the Montana-Wyoming border to Colorado and central Utah as well as in the Sierra Nevada of California.

<i>Lasionycta subfuscula</i> Species of moth

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<i>Lasionycta dolosa</i> Species of moth

Lasionycta dolosa is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1923. It is found in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

<i>Lasionycta quadrilunata</i> Species of moth

Lasionycta quadrilunata is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from south-central Alaska down the spine of the Rocky Mountains to Colorado.

<i>Lasionycta uniformis</i> Species of moth

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<i>Lasionycta brunnea</i> Species of moth

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<i>Lasionycta caesia</i> Species of moth

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<i>Lasionycta discolor</i> Species of moth

Lasionycta discolor is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It occurs in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and on the Beartooth Plateau in Wyoming.

<i>Lasionycta promulsa</i> Species of moth

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