Lasionycta impingens

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

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

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