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Noctuidae
933069 – 10415   Lacinipolia strigicollis (Wallengren, 1860)
             Collared Arches

DNA - © Gary McDonald
Distribution: Canada: BC; USA: WA, ID, OR, CA. As of 3/1/2022 there are no barcoded strigicollis from east of CA and south of ID.
Type locality (strigicollis): California.
Type locality (alboguttata): Oregon.
Type locality (dilatata): New Mexico.
Type locality (illaudabilis): Vancouver Island, CA.
Type locality (restora): Kaslo, BC.
Description/
Field Marks:
"Anterior wings above whitish, the basal space ochraceous and brown marbled, the intermediate space rusty-brown, the spots of cell 2 ordinary white, and the outer margin outside the subterminal line wavy gray; posterior gray disc paler; with a rusty collar, a black transverse line and a whitish edge." - Google translation of the original description of L. strigicollis
Similar Species:
  • Lacinipolia bucketti is sympatric though out the range of illaudabilis (=strigicollis).
  • Lacinipolia olivacea petita (Smith, 1901).
  • Lacinipolia buscki (Barnes & Benjamin, 1927) is separated from illaudabilis (=strigicollis) by DNA barcode.
  • Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.)
Synonymy: Hecatera strigicollis Wallengren, 1860
Mamestra alboguttata Grote, 1876
Mamestra dilatata Smith, 1900
Mamestra illaudabilis Grote, 1875
Mamestra restora Smith, 1910
Taxonomic Notes: Lacinipolia strigicollis (Wallengren, 1860) includes as a synonym illaudabilis (Grote, 1875) and its former synonyms, alboguttata (Grote, 1876), dilatata (Smith, 1900), and restora (Smith, 1910) in Mustelin (2006), Zootaxa, 1278: 39.

The synonymies by Mustelin were based on the original description strigicollis. The holotype of strigicollis was believed to have been lost by McDunnough (1937:178) and subsequent authors including Mustelin (2006). However, in 2022 it was relocated in the Swedish Museum of Natural History (catalogue no. NHRS-TOBI0005212, see image below). It is not the same species as illaudabilis (C. Schmidt, pers. comm., 1 April 2024). It apparently applies to the olivacea group and seems to most resemble paratypes of L. bucketti Selman & Leuschner, 2001 and L. olivacea petita (Smith, 1901). It is possible that strigicollis may actually refer to bucketti. If so, "true" strigicollis might be represented at BOLD by BOLD:ACE9063 (the BIN group with paratypes of both petita and bucketti) and illaudabilis by BOLD:AAB7768 (the BIN with specimens currently identified as strigicollis). Pending revision, MPG will continue to display the images of DNA barcoded specimens from BOLD:AAB7768.
References
  • Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: Some specimens shown may not be sequenced. DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness not proof of identification.
  • Barcode of Life (BOLD) - BIN: BOLD:AAB7768 (strigicollis (or illaudabilis?))
  • Barcode of Life (BOLD) - BIN: BOLD:ACE9063 (L. o. petita and L. bucketti)
  • Grote, A.R., 1875. Preliminary list of the Noctuidae of California. The Canadian Entomologist, 7(2): 27.
  • Harvey, L.F., 1875. On Noctuidae from the Pacific Coast of North America . Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 3: 85.
  • McDunnough, J.H., 1937. The laudabilis group of Lacinipolia (lepid., Phalaenidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 69: 177-185.
  • Mustelin, T., 2006. Taxonomy of southern California Erebidae and Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) with descriptions of twenty one new species. Zootaxa, 1278: 1-47.
  • Selman, C.L., 1975. Revision of the Genus Lacinipolia McDunnough of America North of Mexico (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Ohio State University, Ph.D. thesis dissertation.
  • Smith, J.B., 1900. A hundred new moths of the family Noctuidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 22: 464.
  • Smith, J.B., 1910. Notes on certain species of Mamestra. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 3(2): 156.
  • Species Page at BugGuide.Net
  • Species Page at Pacific Northwest Moths
  • Wallengren, H.D.J., 1860. Lepidopterologische Mittheilungen. Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift, 4(6): 170.
Lacinipolia strigicollis
DNA - © Gary McDonald
Lacinipolia strigicollis
DNA - © Gary McDonald
Lacinipolia strigicollis
DNA - LG(cc) CBG Photog. Grp. (CNC)
Lacinipolia strigicollis
DNA - LG(cc) CBG Photog. Grp. (CNC)
Lacinipolia strigicollis
DNA - LG – © Gary McDonald
Lacinipolia strigicollis
DNA - LG – © Gary McDonald
Lacinipolia strigicollis
DNA - LG – © Gary McDonald
Lacinipolia strigicollis
Holotype - LG(cc) Swed. Mus. Nat. Hist.
Lacinipolia strigicollis
© John G. Franclemont CUIC LG

Lacinipolia strigicollis
© John G. Franclemont CUIC LG


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