Lasionycta flanda Crabo & Lafontaine 2009, stat. rev.

• Main Authors: Crabo, Lars, Lafontaine, Donald
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae; Lasionycta; Lasionycta flanda; Newfoundland; Canada; Todd; Cartwright; Hopedale; Tundra
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3790220; https://zenodo.org/record/3790220

Lasionycta flanda (Smith), stat. rev. Figs 30, 148, 204. Map 9 Anarta flanda Smith, 1908: 111. Lasiestra leucocycla flanda McDunnough 1938: 71. Lasionycta leucocycla flanda Lafontaine et al. 1986: 257. Type material. Lectotype ♁ [AMNH, examined]. Type locality: Newfoundland. Th e male lectotype was designated by Todd (1982: 84). Diagnosis. Lasionycta flanda resembles L . leucocycla but has a yellow-brown hindwing and blue-gray forewing with patches of yellow scales. It has narrow biserrate male antenna and genitalia indistinguishable from those of L . leucocycla , but the eye is rounded, normal in size, whereas those of L . leucocycla are reduced in size. Lasionycta flanda is restricted to Newfoundland and Labrador. It is only likely to be confused with L . l . moeschleri in Labrador but can be distinguished by hindwing color and eye size. Lasionycta flanda tends to be larger than L . l . moeschleri (12–13 mm for L . flanda males compared with 10–12 mm for L . l . moeschleri males). Th e female bursa is similar to that of L . leucocycla but is larger. The single available L . flanda CO1 sequence of is identical to that of L . anthracina and similar to those of L . leucocycla . Distribution and biology. Lasionycta flanda is found on the island of Newfoundland and at Goose Bay in eastern Labrador and occurs on tundra. It has been collected from mid-July to early August. It is nocturnal and comes to light (D. Macaulay pers. comm.). Remarks. Lafontaine et al. (1986) treated L . flanda as an endemic Newfoundland subspecies of L . leucocycla , but the taxa are sympatric in Labrador. Two typical, dusky L . flanda females with round eyes from Goose Bay were found amongst L . l . moeschleri at the CNC. Lasionycta leucocycla from nearby Cartwright and Hopedale have reduced ellipsoid eyes and white hindwings typical for L . leucocycla moeschleri . : Published as part of 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, pp. 1-156 in ZooKeys 30 (30) on page 36, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.30.308, http://zenodo.org/record/576576 : {"references": ["Smith JB (1908) New species and genera of the Lepidopterous family Noctuidae for 1907, Part 2. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 18: 91 - 127.", "McDunnough J (1938) Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of America. Part 1 Macrolepidoptera. Memoirs of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 1: 1 - 275.", "Lafontaine JD, Kononenko VS, McCabe TL (1986) A Review of the Lasionycta leucocycla complex (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) with descriptions of three new subspecies. The Canadian Entomologist 118: 255 - 279.", "Todd EL (1982) Th e noctuid type material of John B. Smith (Lepidoptera). United States Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin 1645, 228 pp."]}