Lasionycta leucocycla

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Lasionycta leucocycla
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Lasionycta leucocycla leucocycla male
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Lasionycta leucocycla leucocycla female
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Lasionycta
Species:
L. leucocycla
Binomial name
Lasionycta leucocycla
(Staudinger, 1857)
Synonyms
  • Anarta leucocyclaStaudinger, 1857
  • Lasiestra leucocyclaMcDunnough 1938
  • Anarta leucocycla var. moeschleriStaudinger, 1901
  • Anarta staudingeri ab. moeschleriHampson 1905
  • Anarta staudingeri moeschleriWarren, 1912
  • Anarta leucocycla moeschleriMcDunnough, 1925
  • Lasiestra leucocycla moeschleriMcDunnough, 1938
  • Lasionycta leucocycla moeschleriLafontaine et al., 1986
  • Anarta hampaSmith, 1908
  • Lasiestra leucocycla hampaMcDunnough, 1938
  • Lasionycta leucocycla hampaLafontaine et al., 1986
  • Anarta leucocycla albertensisMcDunnough, 1925
  • Lasiestra leucocycla albertensisMcDunnough, 1938
  • Lasionycta leucocycla albertensisLafontaine et al., 1986
  • Lasionycta leucocycla magadanensisKononenko and Lafontaine, 1986

Lasionycta leucocycla is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It can be found in Scandinavia, Siberia and northern North America.

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Lasionycta leucocycla hampa Lasionycta leucocycla hampa.JPG
Lasionycta leucocycla hampa
Lasionycta leucocycla hampa female Lasionycta leucocycla albertensis.JPG
Lasionycta leucocycla hampa female
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Lasionycta leucocycla hampa male

The wingspan is 22–28 mm. The moths fly from June to July.

Adults feed on the nectar of Silene acaulis , Mertensia paniculata and Senecio species, probably Senecio lugens .

The larvae feed on Dryas octopetala and Astragalus species.

Subspecies

Lasionycta leucocycla dovrensis is formally treated as a subspecies of Lasionycta leucocycla, but might be a valid species, in which case Lasionycta leucocycla altaica would probably be a subspecies of Lasionycta dovrensis.

Former subspecies

Lasionycta leucocycla flanda was raised to species level as Lasionycta flanda .


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

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

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

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

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

Lasionycta fergusoni is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from the southern Washington Cascades through British Columbia and Alberta to southern Yukon.

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

Lasionycta luteola is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from northern Washington and south-western Alberta northward to south-western Yukon.

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

Lasionycta flanda is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found on the island of Newfoundland and at Goose Bay in eastern Labrador.

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

Lasionycta coracina is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Richardson and British Mountains in northern Yukon, adjacent Northwest Territories, and Cape Thompson in north-western Alaska.

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

Lasionycta illima is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from Pink Mountain in north-eastern British Columbia through southern Yukon to eastern Alaska.

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

Lasionycta frigida is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It has a restricted range in the Alberta Rocky Mountains. It is possibly also present in Yukon and Alaska.

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

Lasionycta perplexa is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is widely distributed from southern Alaska and Yukon in the north to California, Utah, and Colorado in the South. A disjunct population is found on the east coast of Hudson Bay at Kuujjuaraapik.

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

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

Lasionycta subfumosa is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from Victoria Island and Banks Island in the Northwest Territories and the Darby Mountains on the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.

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

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

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

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

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

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<i>Tricholita ferrisi</i> Species of moth

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