With the fifth installment of the “Contributions to the systematics of New World macro-moths” series, initiated in 2009 (Schmidt and Lafontaine 2009), systematics of taxa in the Geometridae, Notodontidae, Erebidae and Noctuidae are addressed. Geographic coverage is approximately equal between the Nearctic and Neotropic realms. Despite the relatively advanced taxonomic knowledge of the North Ame...

M. Bengtsson Organic Chemistry 3, Chemical Center, University of Lund, P.O.B. 124, Lund, S-22100, Sweden Z. Naturforsch. 47c, 613-617 (1992); received January 24, 1992 Orthosia gothica, Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Sex Attractant In field trapping tests male Orthosia gothica (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) were captured in traps baited with blends of (Z)-9-tetradecenyl acetate, (Z)-9-tetradecenol, (Z)-5-te...

In this paper, we reported the butterflies and moths that are consumed in Mexico. We identified 67 species of Lepidoptera that are eaten principally in their larval stage in 17 states of Mexico. These species belong to 16 families: Arctiidae, Bombycidae, Castniidae, Cossidae, Geometridae, Hepialidae, Hesperiidae, Lasiocampidae, Noctuidae, Nymphalidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Pyralidae, Saturnii...

After examining the type specimens of species in the eastern North American genus Argyrostrotis the number of known species in the genus is reduced from 10 to six through synonymy. A key to species is included along with illustrations of the adults and genitalia of each species. Three Neotropical species currently included in Argyrostrotis (Argyrostrotis eurysaces Schaus, 1914; Argyrostrotis qu...

В научно-исследовательской работе приводится видовой состав чешуекрылых - вредителей сои ТОО «Байсерке-Агро» в Алматинской области. результате проведенных исследований на полях кормовых (соя) культур области нами было отмечено 22 вида (бабочки), относящихся к 6 семействам. По видовому разнообразию из выявленных преобладают представители семейства Noctuidae – 10 видов, за ними следуют Pieridae 4...

Abstract Noctuidae belong to one of the largest families night-flying Lepidoptera. However, despite being among most common nocturnal flower-visitors, they have seldom been included in pollination networks. Similarly, current knowledge on food plants used by adults is rather scarce. In this article, we build first moth–plant pollen transfer network Balearic archipelago. We aim increase which ar...

We studied the biology of Tiracola grandirena (Herrich-Schäffer, 1868) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Hadeninae) at 25 ± 1 °C, 70 ± 10% RH and 14 hours of photo phase. Three experiments, using 150 larvae each, were conducted for the larval stage. In the first, used to assess the duration and survival of all stages, insects were reared individually and fed an artificial diet (Grenee). In the second, i...

With the ongoing loss of biodiversity, there is a great need for fast and effective ways to assess species richness and diversity: DNA barcoding provides a powerful new tool for this. We investigated this approach by focusing on the Tibetan plateau, which is one of the world's top biodiversity hotspots. There have been few studies of its invertebrates, although they constitute the vast majority...

The genus Loxopamea Hreblay & Plante, 1995 (Noctuidae, Xyleninae: Apameini) was erected by Hreblay & Plante (1995) with type species Loxopamea albitracta Hreblay & Plante, 1995, comprises seven known species with very restricted range in Himalayan–Sino-Pacific subregions. Recently a detailed revision of the tribe Apameini, including the genus Loxopamea was elaborated by Zilli et al. (2009). Tax...

Three Palaearctic species of the Heliocheilus translucens species-group are reviewed. One new species, H. tengri Volynkin & Matov, sp. n. is described from West Mongolia, southwestern part of Mongolian Altai Mts. The adults, male and female genitalia are illustrated.