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 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 flanda was raised to species level as Lasionycta flanda.


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