Lasionycta leucocycla

Lasionycta leucocycla
Lasionycta leucocycla leucocycla male
Lasionycta leucocycla leucocycla female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Lasionycta
Species:	L. leucocycla
Binomial name
Lasionycta leucocycla (Staudinger, 1857)
Synonyms
Anarta leucocycla Staudinger, 1857 Lasiestra leucocycla McDunnough 1938 Anarta leucocycla var. moeschleri Staudinger, 1901 Anarta staudingeri ab. moeschleri Hampson 1905 Anarta staudingeri moeschleri Warren, 1912 Anarta leucocycla moeschleri McDunnough, 1925 Lasiestra leucocycla moeschleri McDunnough, 1938 Lasionycta leucocycla moeschleri Lafontaine et al., 1986 Anarta hampa Smith, 1908 Lasiestra leucocycla hampa McDunnough, 1938 Lasionycta leucocycla hampa Lafontaine et al., 1986 Anarta leucocycla albertensis McDunnough, 1925 Lasiestra leucocycla albertensis McDunnough, 1938 Lasionycta leucocycla albertensis Lafontaine et al., 1986 Lasionycta leucocycla magadanensis Kononenko and Lafontaine, 1986

Lasionycta leucocycla is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It can be found in Scandinavia, Siberia and northern North America.

Lasionycta leucocycla hampa

Lasionycta leucocycla hampa female

Lasionycta leucocycla hampa male

The wingspan is 22–28 mm. The moths fly from June to July.

Adults feed on the nectar of Silene acaulis, Mertensia paniculata and Senecio species, probably Senecio lugens.

The larvae feed on Dryas octopetala and Astragalus species.

Subspecies

• Lasionycta leucocycla dovrensis (northern Europe)
• Lasionycta leucocycla altaica (Altai)
• Lasionycta leucocycla leucocycla (arctic North America from Greenland and Ellesmere Island west to northern Yukon)
• Lasionycta leucocycla moeschleri (eastern Canada from the east coast of Hudson Bay and southern Labrador north to the arctic islands near the Ungava Peninsula, Quebec)
• Lasionycta leucocycla hampa (White Mountains of New Hampshire)
• Lasionycta leucocycla albertensis (west-central Alaska and central Yukon southward in the Rocky Mountains to the Beartooth Plateau on the Montana-Wyoming border and the Russian Far East)
• Lasionycta leucocycla magadanensis (Eurasia)

Lasionycta leucocycla dovrensis is formally treated as a subspecies of Lasionycta leucocycla, but might be a valid species, in which case Lasionycta leucocycla altaica would probably be a subspecies of Lasionycta dovrensis.

Former subspecies

• Lasionycta leucocycla kenteana (Kentei)
• Lasionycta leucocycla mongolica (Uliassutai)
• Lasionycta leucocycla subfumosa (Northwest Territories)

Lasionycta leucocycla flanda was raised to species level as Lasionycta flanda.

External links

• 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