Lasionycta impingens

Lasionycta impingens is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It occurs from southern Yukon to Colorado.

Lasionycta impingens
Lasionycta impingens impingens male
Lasionycta impingens impingens female
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Lasionycta
Species:	L. impingens
Binomial name
Lasionycta impingens (Walker, 1857)
Synonyms
Anarta impingens Walker, 1857 Lasiestra impingens McDunnough, 1938 Lasionycta impingens Lafontaine et al., 1986 Mamestra curta Morrison, 1875a Anarta curta Dyar, 1903 Lasiestra impingens curta McDunnough, 1938 Orthosia perpura Morrison, 1875b Anarta perpura Dyar, 1903 Lasiestra perpura McDunnough, 1938 Anarta nivaria Grote, 1876 Lasiestra nivaria McDunnough, 1938

Lasionycta impingens curta

It is diurnal. Adults are common in alpine tundra. It feeds on nectar of a Penstemon species on the Beartooth Plateau, Montana, as well as on Mertensia paniculata and a Senecio, likely Senecio lugens at Pink Mountain, British Columbia.

Adults are on wing in July and August.

Subspecies

• Lasionycta impingens impingens (from southern Yukon southward in the Rocky Mountains to southern British Columbia and Alberta, and in southwestern British Columbia at Pavilion north of Lillooet)
• Lasionycta impingens curta (in the Rocky Mountains from southern Montana to Colorado)

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