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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Eriopygini » Lasionycta » Lasionycta fergusoni - Hodges#10362.1 (Lasionycta fergusoni)

Species Lasionycta fergusoni - Hodges#10362.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Pronunciation · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Lasionycta - Lasionycta fergusoni - female

Lasionycta fergusoni - Hodges #10362.1 - Lasionycta fergusoni

Moth - Dorsal view - Lasionycta fergusoni

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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 Lasionycta

Species fergusoni (Lasionycta fergusoni - Hodges#10362.1)

Hodges Number

10362.1

Pronunciation

The species is named in honor of Douglas C. Ferguson. (1), (2)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lasionycta fergusoni Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932974

Size

Forewing length 14-18 mm.

Identification

The description of Lasionycta fergusoni Crabo & Lafontaine is avaiable in PDF. (2)

Food

The host plant and immature are unknown. (2)

See Also

Lasionycta conjugata, has a black bar between the reniform and claviform.

Eremobina claudens

Print References

Crabo, L.G. & D. Lafontaine, 2009, 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. ZooKeys 30: Special issue, 18, figs. 11, 142, 200, map 3.(2)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (3)

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum (University of Alberta )

Works Cited

1.	Alexander Douglas Campbell Ferguson - 1926-2002 R. W. Hodges. 2003. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 57(4): 299-303.

2.	A Revision of Lasionycta (Aurivillius) Lepidoptera, Noctuidae for North America and notes on Eurasian species, with .... Lars G. Crabo, J. Donald Lafontaine. 2009. ZooKeys 30: Special issue.

3.	Pacific Northwest Moths

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 29 June, 2013 - 11:12am
Last updated 29 June, 2013 - 3:13pm

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