Lasionycta phaea

Lasionycta phaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Lasionycta
Species: L. phaea
Binomial name
Lasionycta phaea
(Hampson, 1905)
Synonyms
  • Anarta phaea Hampson, 1905
  • Lasiestra impingens phaea McDunnough 1938

Lasionycta phaea is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is an arctic species and has been collected from Baffin Island in north-eastern Canada to the central Brooks Range in northern Alaska and southward along the west coast of Hudson Bay to Arviat, Nunavut.

Adults are diurnal and occur on wet tundra. Adults are on wing from late June to mid-July.

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