Leuconycta lepidula

Leuconycta lepidula, the marbled-green leuconycta moth, marbled-green jaspidia or dark leuconycta, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1874.^[1][2] It is found in North America from Nova Scotia to North Carolina, west to Texas and north to Alberta.^[3]

Leuconycta lepidula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Leuconycta
Species:	L. lepidula
Binomial name
Leuconycta lepidula (Grote, 1874)
Synonyms
Jaspidia lepidula Grote, 1874 Bryophila lepidula Bryophila avirida Smith, 1906 Leuconycta lepidula avirida

The wingspan is about 30 mm. Adults are on wing from May to August in one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Taraxacum species,^[4] including Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion).