Lasionycta skraelingia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Lasionycta |
Species: | L. skraelingia |
Binomial name | |
Lasionycta skraelingia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1852) | |
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Lasionycta skraelingia is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It has a Holarctic distribution, occurring from Scandinavia to north-western North America. In North America this species is known from three specimens from Windy Pass, Ogilvie Mountains, Yukon.
The wingspan is about 31 mm. Adults are on wing from late June to early July. In Eurasia, the species is biennial. This is likely also the case in North America. The Yukon specimens were collected in two odd-numbered years.
In Scandinavia the species is polyphagous when reared and has been fed on Betula nana , Polygonum aviculare and Vaccinium uligonosum .
Lasionycta staudingeri is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It can be found from Oppland to Finland and Norway in Europe, as well as Siberia and North America.
Lasionycta leucocycla is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It can be found in Scandinavia, Siberia and northern North America.
Lasionycta taigata is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It occurs in open peatlands and fens in the taiga zone from Labrador, Churchill, Manitoba, and central Yukon, southward to northern Maine, northern Minnesota, and south-western Alberta.
Lasionycta secedens is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It has a Holarctic distribution. North American populations are distributed from Labrador, northern Manitoba, and Alaska, southward to northern Maine, northern Minnesota, and south-central British Columbia. Subspecies bohemani occurs in northern Eurasia, Alaska and Yukon.
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.
Lasionycta luteola is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from northern Washington and south-western Alberta northward to south-western Yukon.
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.
Lasionycta poca is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1923. It is found throughout the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, westward to the Coast Range in western British Columbia and southward in the Cascades to Okanogan County, Washington.
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.
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.
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.
Lasionycta perplexella is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from southern Yukon to southern Alberta and southern Washington.
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.
Lasionycta carolynae is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Ogilvie and Richardson Mountains in Yukon.
Lasionycta uniformis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is widely distributed in the mountains of western North America. It occurs from southern Yukon to northern California and Colorado, with an isolated population in eastern Quebec.
Lasionycta gelida is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is known from three specimens from the British Columbia Coast Range.
Lasionycta promulsa is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It occurs from Rampart House in northern Yukon to south-western British Columbia in the west and southern New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains.
Lasionycta pulverea is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It has a restricted range in the Rocky Mountain foothills of Alberta from Nordegg to Blairmore, with a single specimen from Lethbridge.
Lasionycta impingens is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It occurs from southern Yukon to Colorado.
Psammopolia insolens is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It occurs on Pacific Coast sand beaches in central California from Carmel to Bodega Bay, Sonoma County. Most specimens are from near San Francisco.