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vicina complex

Lacinipolia pensilis ID Request - Lacinipolia teligera white, brown, and black moth with star shaped hump - Lacinipolia Noctuidae: Lacinipolia pensilis - Lacinipolia pensilis Lacinipolia vicina complex? - Lacinipolia sareta Noctuinae? - Lacinipolia sareta Lacinipolia acutipennis Egira simplex ? - Lacinipolia sareta
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)
Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)
Tribe Eriopygini
Genus Lacinipolia
No Taxon vicina complex
Identification
Species included in this complex are the western pensilis, acutipennis, and dimocki, the southern Plains teligera, the northeastern vicina, and sareta, which is widespread throughout the west and also occurs in the boreal forests of eastern Canada and the extreme northeastern US. Before the 2015 revision of this complex, vicina was considered a very widespread species, but the vicina now refers only to a northeastern entity found from New England to Tennessee.(1)
Works Cited
1.Revision of the Lacinipolia vicina (Grote) complex (Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Eriopygini)
Schmidt, B.C. 2015. ZooKeys 527: 103-126.
Contributed by Paul Dennehy on 27 October, 2017 - 10:41am
Additional contributions by Blocky
Last updated 8 December, 2020 - 1:31pm

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