Lasionycta coracina Crabo & Lafontaine 2009, sp. n.

• Main Authors: Crabo, Lars, Lafontaine, Donald
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae; Lasionycta; Lasionycta coracina; Yukon; Northwest Territories; Canada; Leech; Troubridge; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3790230; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3790230

Lasionycta coracina Crabo & Lafontaine, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 884101B7-189C-4311-8A32-2C3EC330DE3B Figs 31, 32, 149, 205. Map 7 Type material. Holotype ♁. Canada, Northwest Territories, Richardson Mts., 67.141° N 136.004° W, 690 m., 5 July 2009, L. Crabo and G. Morrell. CNC. Paratypes: 10 ♁, 20 ♀. Canada, Northwest Territories. Same data as holotype (6 ♁, 5 ♀). Yukon. British Mts, Firth R., 24 July 1956, E. P. Cashman / Slide No. 8364 (1 ♀); same locality, 25 July 1956, R. E. Leech (1 ♀); Richardson Mts, km 413 [Dempster Hwy], 66.630° N 136.275° W, 840 m., 2–3 July 2009, L. Crabo and G. Morrell (1 ♁, 4 ♀); same locality and collectors, 5 July 2009 (7 ♀); km 416 Dempster Hwy, 22–28 June 1980, 750 m, Wood and Lafontaine / Slide No. 8309 (1 ♁); Mi 252 Dempster Hwy, 1 July 1985, Tom Kral / Databased for CNC, Noctuoidea # 10526/ Barcodes of Life Project, University of Guelph, DNA # Noctuoidea 10528 (1 ♀); km 465 Dempster Hwy, 4 July 1985, 800 m., J. and L. Troubridge / Databased for CNC, Noctuoidea # 10286/ Barcodes of Life Project, University of Guelph, DNA # Noctuoidea 10286 (1 ♀); USA, Alaska. Cape Th ompson, 3 Aug. 1961, B. S. Heming (2 ♁). CNC, LGC, UASM, USNM, personal collection of Glenn Morrell, Maine, USA. Etymology. Coracina is Latin and means raven-like, a reference to the dark appearance and northern distribution of this species. Diagnosis. Lasionycta coracina is a small entirely dark-gray species from northern Alaska, northern Yukon, and adjacent Northwest Territories. It resembles a dark L. leucocycla with which it is structurally indistinguishable in males and females. Lasionycta coracina differs from all L. leucocycla sub-group species except L. anthracina in having a dark dorsal hindwing. Lasionycta anthracina occurs far south and east of the range of L. coracina . The forewing apex of L. coracina is more sharply angled than that of L. anthracina and it is a duller gray without a warm brown tint. Th e hindwing fringe is pale in L. coracina whereas it is dark in L. anthracina. The ...