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Lasionycta impingens
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Lasionycta impingens impingens male
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Lasionycta impingens impingens female
Scientific classification
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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
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)

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