Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dsjbd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T04:04:30.063Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Generic Positions of Some North American Species Commonly Referred to Pyrausta Schrank (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Eugene Munroe
Eugene Munroe
Affiliation:
Systematic Entomology, Division of Entomology, Ottawa, Canada
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

It has for some time been realized that the genus Pyrausta as it stands in current North American lists is a very unnatural one. Forbes (1926) pointed out that a fundamental division of the Pyraustinae possible on the basis of the presence or absence in the male fore wing of the frenulum hook, and that species of both types have ordinarily been included in Pyrausta. Subsequent studies of genitalic structure—particularly that by Pierce and Metcalfe (1938)—have borne out the importance of this division.

Type
Articles
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 82 , Issue 11 , November 1950 , pp. 217 - 231
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1950

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Doubleday, H. 1850. A synonymic list of British Lepidoptera, excepting the family Tineidae. London.Google Scholar
Druce, H. H. 1895. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Lepidoptera Heterocera. 2. London.Google Scholar
Forbes, Wm. T. M. 1926. The relationships of some aberrant pyralids (Lep.). J. New York Ent. Soc. 34: 331–339, pl. 25.Google Scholar
Guenée, A. 1844. In Catalogue méthodique des Lépidoptères d'Europe, by Duponchel, . Paris.Google Scholar
Guenée, A. 1854. Species général des lépidoptères, Vol. 8, Deltoides et Pyralites. Paris.Google Scholar
Hübner, J. 1808. Erste Zuträge zur Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge. Augsburg.Google Scholar
Hübner, J. [1808-] 1818. Zuträge zur Sammlung exotischer Schmettlinge. 1. Augsburg.Google Scholar
Hübner, J. 1821. Index exoticorum Lepidopterorum. Augsburg.Google Scholar
Hübner, J. [1824–1825]. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Signatures 20–27. Augsburg.Google Scholar
Lederer, J. 1863. Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Pyralidinen. Wien. Ent. Monatschr 7: 243–502; pl. 2–18.Google Scholar
McDunnough, J. 1939. Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of America. Part 2. Microlepidoptera. Mem. S. California Acad. Sci. 2: 1–171.Google Scholar
Moore, F. 1884–1887. The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. 3. London.Google Scholar
Pierce, F. N., and Metcalfe, J. W.. 1938. The genitalia of the British Pyrales with the Deltoides and Plumes. Oundle, Northants.Google Scholar
Shibuya, J. 1928. The systematic study on the Formosan Pyralidae. J. Fac. Agr., Hokkaido Imp. Univ. 22: 1–300; pl. 1–9.Google Scholar
Snellen, P. C. T. 1880. Nieuwe Pyraliden op het eiland Celebes gevonden door. Mr. M. C. Piepers. Tijd. v. Ent. 23: 198–250.Google Scholar