Lasionycta secedens

Lasionycta secedens
Lasionycta secedens secedens
Lasionycta secedens bohemani
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Lasionycta
Species:	L. secedens
Binomial name
Lasionycta secedens (Walker, [1858])
Synonyms
Plusia secedens Walker, [1858] Anarta secedens Smith 1893a Polia secedens McDunnough 1938 Anartomima secedens Franclemont and Todd 1982 Anarta bohemani Staudinger, 1861 Anartomima bohemani Boursin 1952 Anartomima secedens bohemani Kononenko et al. 1989 Lasionycta secedens syn. bohemani Hacker et al. 2002

Lasionycta 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. Subspecies bohemani occurs in northern Eurasia, Alaska and Yukon.

It is found in boreal forest, especially bogs, and is both diurnal and nocturnal.

Early instar larvae prefer to feed on the epidermis of leaves of Vaccinium vitis-idaea, but is polyphagous when reared. In Scandinavia the larva overwinters twice. In Minnesota this species occurs in raised bogs with Vaccinium vitis-idaea suggesting that this is the foodplant in North America.

Subspecies

• Lasionycta secedens secedens (from eastern Canada to northern British Columbia)
• Lasionycta secedens bohemani (northern Eurasia, Alaska and Yukon)

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
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