[tn-moths] FWD: [moth-rah] New Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea

From: kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: tn-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:53:45 -0400 (EDT)

Here's another taxonomy link.  This one provides a listing of the
latest proposed taxonomy for Noctuoidea with 3693 species for NA
(north of Mexico).

Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:28:57 -0700
Subject: [moth-rah] New Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea


Zookeys 40 just appeared, (free!) online at
http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/article/view/414

Its the BIG ONE!  Basically, the revision of the old MONA checklist for
a huge section of the macro-moths:

Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America
north of Mexico
Donald Lafontaine, Christian Schmidt

Abstract

An annotated check list of the North American species of Noctuoidea
(Lepidoptera) is presented, consisting of 3693 species. One-hundred and
sixty-six taxonomic changes are proposed, consisting of 13 species- group taxa
accorded species status (stat. n. and stat. rev.), 2 revalidated genus-group
taxa (stat. rev.), and 2 family-group taxa raised to subfamily. Sixty-nine
species-group taxa are downgraded to junior synonyms or subspecies (stat. n.,
syn. rev., and syn. n.), and 6 genera relegated to synonymy. Sixty-seven new or
revised generic combinations are proposed. No new taxa are described. Six
non-native species now believed to be established in North America are
documented for the first time, namely Simplicia cornicalis (Fabricius, 1794),
Nola cucullatella (Linnaeus, 1758), Tyta luctuosa ([Denis & Schiffermuller],
1775), Oligia latruncula ([Denis & Schiffermuller], 1775), Niphonyx segregata
(Butler, 1878) and Hecatera dysodea ([Denis & Schiffermuller], 1775). The check
list is arranged according to species membership in higher-level taxa (family,
subfamily, tribe, subtribe), based on the most recent working hypotheses of a
comprehensive phylogenetic framework for the Noctuoidea.



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