Lasionycta haida 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 haida; Canada; British Columbia; Queen Charlotte; McIntyre; Charlotte Island; Queen Charlotte Island; Dinan Bay; haida; Tundra
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3790254; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3790254

Lasionycta haida Crabo & Lafontaine, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: A5B4DA69-7E14-49CD-88EF-B877B5A9A189 Figs 14, 15, 144. Map 4 Type material. Holotype ♁ (light form): [Canada], B[ritish] C[olumbia], Queen Charlotte Islands, Graham Id., SW of Dinan Bay, 2575’, 23 July 1987, J. F. G. Clarke, N. L. duPré [alpine tundra, black light]/ Database # CNC LEP 00053375. USNM. Paratypes: 127 ♁. Canada, British Columbia. Same locality, date, and collectors as holotype (122 ♁); Same locality, date, and collectors as holotype / Databased for CNC, NOCTUOIDEA # 6437, 6438, 6439, and 6440/ Barcodes of Life Project, University of Guelph, DNA # Noctuoidea 6437, 6438, 6439, and 6440 (4 ♁); Graham Island, 2 mi NE Dinan, 3100’, 11–12 Aug. 1988, J.F.G. Clarke and N.L. McIntyre (2 ♁). CNC, LGC, USNM. Etymology. This species is named after the Haida people, the original inhabitants of the Queen Charlotte Islands. It is a noun in apposition. Diagnosis. Lasionycta haida is similar to L. mutilata and replaces it on the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Lasionycta haida is the only dimorphic Lasionycta with both gray and dark-brown forms. Th e gray form is similar to L. mutilata but can be told from it by its dark gray-brown ventral thorax (gray in L. mutilata). In addition, the gray form of L. haida is browner than L. mutilata and its orbicular and reniform spots are smaller. In the distinctive brown form most of the forewing is dark gray brown with a greatly accentuated pattern due to persistent pale filling of lines and spots with luteous scales. The brown form cannot be confused with any other Lasionycta but resembles Psammopolia arietis (Grote) – until now included in Lasionycta (see Appendix) – that occurs on Queen Charlotte Island beaches. Th e male genitalia of P. arietis lack a digitus. Th e females of L. haida is unknown but is likely to be similar to that of L. mutilata, so they probably have pad-like ovipositors whereas those of P. arietis are long and pointed. The CO1 sequences of L. haida and L. mutilata differ ...