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Tribe Phytometrini

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A New Genus and Species from the Southwestern United States (Noctuidae, Acontiinae).

By Richard M. Brown
Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 25(2): 136-145, 1987

Genus Allerastria described. (3Mb PDF)

Contributed by Randy Hardy on 2 June, 2012 - 3:58pm

The genus Phytometra (Haworth, 1809), (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Louisiana

By Vernon Antoine Brou Jr.
Southern Lepidopterists' News, 30: 60-61, 2008

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 6 September, 2013 - 9:22am

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A new species of Parascotia with notes on the genera Mycterophora and Parascotia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: incertae sedis)

By J. G. Franclemont
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 1985

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 23 March, 2012 - 11:23am

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A generic revision of the American moths of the subfamily Hypeninae, with descriptions of new genera and species

By William Schaus
Proceedings of The United States National Museum, 50: 259-399, 1916

Many original descriptions.

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 14 July, 2013 - 9:21am

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A revision of some species of Noctuidae heretofore referred to the genus Homoptera (Boisduval)

By John B. Smith
Proceedings of the United States National Museum 35: 209-275, 1908

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 26 March, 2013 - 7:53pm

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The last instar caterpillars of Oxycilla tripla Grote, and Colobochyla interpuncta Grote (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae.

By George L. Godfrey
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 74(1): 78-85, 1972

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 23 March, 2013 - 1:08pm

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Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA.

By Michael G. Pogue
Zootaxa 3153: 1–31 , 2012

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Species Accounts for 25 Erebidae species (BG links for convenience updating guide pages)

Subfamily Aventiinae (Tutt, 1896)
Oruza albocostaliata (Packard) - The White-Edge

Subfamily Boletobiinae (Grote, 1895)
Metalectra discalis (Grote, 1876) - Common Fungus Moth
Metalectra quadrisignata (Walker, 1858) - Four-spotted Fungus Moth
Metalectra richardsi (Brower, 1941) - Richards’ Fungus Moth

Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 12 March, 2013 - 9:52am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea)

A new molecular phylogeny offers hope for a stable family level classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera)

By Zahiri, R., I.J. Kitching, J.D. Lafontaine, M. Mutanen, L. Kaila, J.D. Holloway, and N. Wahlberg
Zoologica Scripta 40: 158–173., 2010

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Contributed by Aaron Hunt on 23 March, 2021 - 1:48am

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