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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae)

Subfamily Noctuinae - Cutworm or Dart Moths

Notes on Phalaeninae (Lepidoptera)

By James H. McDunnough
American Museum Novitates. 1394: 12, 1949

Many original descriptions.

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 11 April, 2013 - 11:59am

Green Fruitworms

By P. J. Chapman, S. E. Lienk
New York's Food and Life Sciences Bulletin 50: 1-15, 1974

Keys for identification of last instar (Lithophane and Morrisonia) Noctuinae.

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 11 April, 2013 - 10:21am

The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 2. Rediscovery and ...

By Eric H. Metzler, Gregory S. Forbes
Zoo Keys 149: 117–123, 2011

The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 2. Rediscovery and description of Sparkia immacula (Grote, 1883) (Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Hadenini).

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 10 April, 2013 - 3:21pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Noctuini » Agrotina » Euxoa » Subgenus Pleonectopoda (Euxoa Subgenus Pleonectopoda) » westermanni group (Euxoa westermanni group) » Euxoa aurulenta - Hodges#10716 (Euxoa aurulenta)

Special animal abstract for Euxoa aurulenta (dune cutworm).

By D. L. Cuthrell
Michigan Natural Features Inventory 1-2, 1999

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 22 April, 2013 - 10:25am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Noctuini » Agrotina » Dichagyris » Dichagyris acclivis - Hodges#10870 (Dichagyris acclivis)

A Noctuid Moth Dichagyris (Loxagrotis) acclivis

By Andrea Chaloux
New York Natural Heritage Program, 2013

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 22 March, 2013 - 12:05am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Noctuini » Noctuina » Abagrotis » Abagrotis pulchrata - Hodges#11036 (Abagrotis pulchrata)

A new Noctuid from British Columbia. (Lepid.).

By E. H. Blackmore
The Canadian Entomologist 57(8): 205, 1925

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 8 March, 2013 - 10:26pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Caradrinini » Caradrinina » Caradrina » Pale Mottled Willow - Hodges#9660.1 (Caradrina clavipalpis)

Pest Lepidoptera of Europe With Special Reference to the British Isles Series: Series Entomologica , Vol. 31

By Carter, David J.
Dordrecht ; Boston : W. Junk ; Hingham, MA : Distributor for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers., 1984

Available online at Google Books . There is much information about hundreds of species, some of which are present in North America. There are many plates of both adults and larvae. In the online version, the plates are black and white; I don't know about the printed version.

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Contributed by Jay Greenberg on 20 October, 2009 - 2:45pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Xylenini » Xylenina » Pinions (Lithophane) » Lithophane leeae - Hodges#9923.1 (Lithophane leeae)

Lithophane leeae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Xyleninae), a striking new species from southeastern Arizona

By J. Bruce Walsh
Zookeys 9.184 : 21-26, 2009

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 20 July, 2013 - 9:14am

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