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AN APPARENTLY NEW ALASKAN PLATYPTILIA (LEPIDOPTERA, PTEROPHORIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. H. Lange Jr.
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Berkeley, Calif.

Extract

Barnes and Lindsey in their monograph of the American Pterophoridae mentioned the fact that they had examined a series of a Platyptilia in the Fernald collection from St. George and St. Paul Islands, Alaska, which was scarcely recognizable as P. pallidactyla Haw., but was placed under this species because of the poor nature of the series.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1940

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References

* The Pterophoridae of America, north of Mexico. Contribtuions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America. vol. 4 (4), 344. 1921.

* J., McDunnoughSome apparently new microlepidoptera. Can. Ent. vol. 61, p. 269, fig. 3, 1929Google Scholar.