Lasionycta
Encyclopedia
Lasionycta is a genus
of moth
s of the Noctuidae
family.
Lasionycta arietis, Lasionycta insolens, Lasionycta ochracea, Lasionycta sala, Lasionycta wyatti Have been transferred to the Psammopolia
genus.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of moth
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
s of the Noctuidae
Noctuidae
The Noctuidae or owlet moths are a family of robustly-built moths that includes more than 35,000 known species out of possibly 100,000 total, in more than 4,200 genera. They constitute the largest family in the Lepidoptera....
family.
Species
- Lasionycta alpicolaLasionycta alpicolaLasionycta alpicola is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the South Siberian mountains.-External links:*...
Lafontaine & Kononenko, 1988 - Lasionycta anthracinaLasionycta anthracinaLasionycta anthracina is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the east coast of Labrador to north-eastern Alberta, southward to northern New Hampshire and Lake Superior in western Ontario.It is found in boreal forests and bogs....
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta benjaminiLasionycta benjaminiLasionycta benjamini is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the Sierra Nevada of California and in the mountains of Nevada and Colorado.The habitat is montane conifer forest.Adults are on wing from late June to mid-August.-Subspecies:...
Hill, 1927 - Lasionycta brunneaLasionycta brunneaLasionycta brunnea is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It occurs in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta north to Pink Mountain in north-eastern British Columbia, and in the Purcell and Selkirk Mountains in south-western British Columbia and north-eastern Washington.It flies in alpine tundra and is most...
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta buraeticaLasionycta buraeticaLasionycta buraetica is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the Sayan Mountains in Russia.-External links:*...
Kononenko, 1988 - Lasionycta caesiaLasionycta caesiaLasionycta caesia is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It occurs in the Cascade Mountains of northern Washington and the British Columbia Coast Range to 58 degrees north latitude.It occurs in rocky alpine tundra near tree line and is nocturnal....
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta calberlaiLasionycta calberlaiLasionycta calberlai is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in France, Switzerland and Italy.The wingspan is 21-25 mm.The larvae feed on Clematis vitalba.-External links:***...
(Staudinger, 1883) - Lasionycta carolynaeLasionycta carolynaeLasionycta carolynae is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the Ogilvie and Richardson Mountains in Yukon.It is diurnal and flies over shale scree slopes. Adults feed on Dryas octopetala and Silene acaulis in the Ogilvie Mountains and a Saxifraga species in the Richardson Mountains.The...
Crabo, 2009 - Lasionycta coloradensisLasionycta coloradensisLasionycta coloradensis is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the Rocky Mountains from the Montana-Wyoming border to New Mexico.-External links:*...
(Richards, 1943) - Lasionycta conjugataLasionycta conjugataLasionycta conjugata is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the Rocky Mountains from central Utah and Colorado north to the Beartooth Plateau on the Montana-Wyoming border.It is found in subalpine forests and is nocturnal....
(Smith, 1899) - Lasionycta coracinaLasionycta coracinaLasionycta coracina is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the Richardson and British Mountains in northern Yukon, adjacent Northwest Territories, and Cape Thompson in north-western Alaska....
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta coraxLasionycta coraxLasionycta corax is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the Upper Kolyma River area in Russia.-External links:*...
Kononenko, 1988 - Lasionycta decretaLasionycta decretaLasionycta decreta is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in China....
(Püngeler, 1900) - Lasionycta discolorLasionycta discolorLasionycta discolor is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It occurs in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and on the Beartooth Plateau in Wyoming.It flies over alpine tundra and is both diurnal and nocturnal.Adults are on wing in late July.-External links:...
(Smith, 1899) - Lasionycta dolosaLasionycta dolosaLasionycta dolosa is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Most adults haveIt is diurnal and occurs above the timberline.Adults are on wing from early July to mid-August.-External links:*...
(Barnes & Benjamin, 1923) - Lasionycta draudtiLasionycta draudtiLasionycta draudti is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Turkey and Russia....
(Wagner, 1936) - Lasionycta fergusoniLasionycta fergusoniLasionycta fergusoni is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the southern Washington Cascades through British Columbia and Alberta to southern Yukon.It is found in subalpine forests and is nocturnal....
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta flandaLasionycta flandaLasionycta flanda is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found on the island of Newfoundland and at Goose Bay in eastern Labrador.It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of Lasionycta leucocycla.It is found on tundra....
(Smith, 1908) - Lasionycta frigidaLasionycta frigidaLasionycta frigida is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It has a restricted range in the Alberta Rocky Mountains. It is possibly also present in Yukon and Alaska.The habitat is mixed forest in cold microclimates....
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta gelidaLasionycta gelidaLasionycta gelida is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is known from three specimens from the British Columbia Coast Range.It occurs in rocky tundra slightly above timberline....
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta haidaLasionycta haidaLasionycta haida is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is endemic to the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia.The wingspan is 32–33 mm.-External links:*...
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta hampsoniLasionycta hampsoniLasionycta hampsoni is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the South Siberian mountains.-External links:*...
Varga, 1974 - Lasionycta hospitaLasionycta hospitaLasionycta hospita is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the South Siberian mountains and the Amur and Primorye regions-External links:*...
Bang-Haas, 1912 - Lasionycta illimaLasionycta illimaLasionycta illima is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Pink Mountain in north-eastern British Columbia through southern Yukon to eastern Alaska.The wingspan is 27 mm for males and 26–28 mm for females.-External links:*...
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta imparLasionycta imparLasionycta impar is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in southern Russia....
(Staudinger, 1870) - Lasionycta impingensLasionycta impingensLasionycta impingens is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It occurs from southern Yukon to Colorado.It is diurnal. Adults are common in alpine tundra...
(Walker, 1857) - Lasionycta lagganataLasionycta lagganataLasionycta lagganata is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is only known from three localities in south-western Canada: Banff and Waterton National Parks in Alberta and the Purcell Mountains in south-eastern British Columbia....
(Barnes & Benjamin, 1924) - Lasionycta leucocyclaLasionycta leucocyclaLasionycta leucocycla is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It can be found in Scandinavia, Siberia and northern North America.The wingspan is 22-28 mm...
(Staudinger, 1857) - Lasionycta leviculaLasionycta leviculaLasionycta levicula is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in China....
(Püngeler, 1909) - Lasionycta luteolaLasionycta luteolaLasionycta luteola is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from northern Washington and south-western Alberta northward to south-western Yukon....
(Smith, 1893) - Lasionycta macleaniLasionycta macleaniLasionycta macleani is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is known only from the east or southeast slope Mount McLean.It is found at or above timberline.-External links:*...
(McDunnough, 1927) - Lasionycta melanographaLasionycta melanographaLasionycta melanographa is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Afghanistan....
Varga, 1973 - Lasionycta monoLasionycta monoLasionycta mono is a moth of the Noctuidae family. This species is known only from the type locality in the Sierra Nevada.The habitat is most likely rocky tundra.The wingspan is about 26 mm.-External links:*...
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta montanoidesLasionycta montanoidesLasionycta montanoides is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in China....
(Poole, 1989) - Lasionycta mutilataLasionycta mutilataLasionycta mutilata is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Oregon and Yellowstone National Park, Montana and Wyoming, northward to the Alaskan Panhandle and the Rocky Mountains of Alberta...
(Smith, 1898) - Lasionycta orientalisLasionycta orientalisLasionycta orientalis is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.-External links:*...
(Alphéraky, 1882) - Lasionycta perplexaLasionycta perplexaLasionycta perplexa is a moth of the Noctuidae family. 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....
(Smith, 1888) - Lasionycta perplexellaLasionycta perplexellaLasionycta perplexella is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from southern Yukon to southern Alberta and southern Washington.The habitat is subalpine spruce and fir forest....
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta phaeaLasionycta phaeaLasionycta phaea is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is an arctic species and has been collected from Baffin Island in north-eastern Canada to the central Brooks Range in northern Alaska and southward along the west coast of Hudson Bay to Arviat, Nunavut.Adults are diurnal and occur on wet...
(Hampson, 1905) - Lasionycta phocaLasionycta phocaLasionycta phoca is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It occurs in eastern and central Canada with records from Labrador to the west coast of Hudson Bay.Adults fly over tundra, are diurnal and nocturnal, and come to light....
(Möschler, 1864) - Lasionycta pocaLasionycta pocaLasionycta poca is a moth of the Noctuidae family. 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....
(Barnes & Benjamin, 1923) - ?Lasionycta poliades (Draudt, 1950)
- Lasionycta promulsaLasionycta promulsaLasionycta promulsa is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It occurs from Rampart House in northern Yukon to south-western British Columbia in the west and southern New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains.It is most common near timberline and is nocturnal...
(Morrison, 1875) - Lasionycta proximaLasionycta proximaLasionycta proxima is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It can be found from Spain through Europe, east up to eastern Asia . It is not present in the north-west of the British Isles. In the north, it is found up to Polar Circle. In the south it is found from the Mediterranean Sea up to the Caucasus...
(Hübner, [1809]) - Lasionycta pulvereaLasionycta pulvereaLasionycta pulverea is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is has a restricted range in the Rocky Mountain foothills of Alberta from Nordegg to Blairmore, with a single specimen from Lethbridge.It is found in subalpine parkland and is nocturnal....
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta quadrilunataLasionycta quadrilunataLasionycta quadrilunata is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from south-central Alaska down the spine of the Rocky Mountains to Colorado.It flies over scree tundra and is diurnal.Adults are on wing from mid-July to early August.-Subspecies:...
(Grote, 1874) - Lasionycta sasquatchLasionycta sasquatchLasionycta sasquatch is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the Washington Cascades south of Snoqualmie Pass, Saddle Mountain in the Oregon Coast Range, and the Siskiyou Mountains in south-western Oregon....
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta secedensLasionycta secedensLasionycta secedens is a moth of the Noctuidae family. 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...
(Walker, [1858]) - Lasionycta silaceaLasionycta silaceaLasionycta silacea is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It occurs from the British Columbia Coast Range and the Washington Cascades to extreme south-western Alberta.It is found near the treeline and is nocturnal....
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta sierraLasionycta sierraLasionycta sierra is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It occurs in the Sierra Nevada of California.It is found in subalpine forests and alpine tundra and is nocturnal....
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta skraelingiaLasionycta skraelingiaLasionycta skraelingia is a moth of the Noctuidae family. 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....
(Herrich-Schäffer, [1852]) - Lasionycta staudingeriLasionycta staudingeriLasionycta staudingeri is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It can be found from Oppland to Finland and Norway in Europe. Outside of Europe, it is found in Russia, Siberia and North America.The species is diurnal and flies over dry scree tundra....
(Aurivillius, 1891) - Lasionycta subalpinaLasionycta subalpinaLasionycta subalpina is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from southern Idaho and the Beartooth Plateau on the Montana-Wyoming border to Colorado and central Utah as well as in the Sierra Nevada of California....
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 - Lasionycta subditaLasionycta subditaLasionycta subdita is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is a subarctic species and is found across Labrador, Quebec and Ontario to Churchill, Manitoba on the west shore of the Hudson Bay. A disjunct population is found in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.Adults are on wing in July.-External...
(Möschler, 1860) - Lasionycta subfumosaLasionycta subfumosaLasionycta subfumosa is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Victoria Island and Banks Island in the Northwest Territories and the Darby Mountains on the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.It is a diurnal species....
(Gibson, 1920) - Lasionycta subfusculaLasionycta subfusculaLasionycta subfuscula is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from south-western British Columbia and south-western Alberta south to southern Oregon in the west and to southern Colorado and Utah in the Rocky Mountains....
(Grote, 1874) - Lasionycta taigataLasionycta taigataLasionycta taigata is a moth of the Noctuidae family. 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....
Lafontaine, 1988 - Lasionycta uniformisLasionycta uniformisLasionycta uniformis is a moth of the Noctuidae family. 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....
(Smith, 1893)
Lasionycta arietis, Lasionycta insolens, Lasionycta ochracea, Lasionycta sala, Lasionycta wyatti Have been transferred to the Psammopolia
Psammopolia
Psammopolia is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.-Species:* Psammopolia arietis * Psammopolia insolens * Psammopolia ochracea * Psammopolia sala...
genus.