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Tribe Actinotiini


Description of a new genus and two new species of cutworm moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).
By J. Donald Lafontaine and James T. Troubridge
The Canadian Entomologist, 2004
The Canadian Entomologist, 136, pp 823-834. doi:10.4039/n04-038

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A study of the North American moths formerly referred to Delta (Saalmuller), with two new species (Lepidoptera: Phalaenidae)
By J. F. Gates Clarke
Bulletin of The Southern California Academy of Sciences 39: 39-52, 1940

Notes on Scotogramma and Oncocnemis with descriptions of new species
By John B. Smith
Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 7(1): 37-44, 1899

A new apameine genus and species from the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae)
By Eric L. Quinter, J. Bolling Sullivan
Zookeys, 2014
Sullivan J, Quinter E (2014) A new apameine genus and species from the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae). ZooKeys 421: 181-191. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.421.7727

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The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 1. Two new species of ...
By Eric Metzler, David Bustos, Gregory Forbes
ZooKeys 9: Special issue: 47-62, 2009
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The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 1. Two new species of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuinae, Agrotini)

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Contributions toward a monograph of the Noctuidae of temperate North America. Revision of the species of Mamestra.
By John B Smith
Proceedings of The United States National Museum 14: 197-276 , 1891

A revision of the genus Trichosilia (Hampson) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) with descriptions of four new species
By J. D. Lafontaine, V.S. Kononenko
The Canadian Entomologist, 118(11): 1079-1113, 1986

Revision of species of the “Oligia” semicana group (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) with descriptions of a new genus and 12 new spec
By James T. Troubridge, J. Donald Lafontaine
The Canadian Entomologist, 134(2): 157–191, 2002