Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-xbtfd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-06T04:27:07.505Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES FROM ALASKA (LEPID., ARCTIIDAE, NYCTEMERINAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Foster H. Benjamin
Foster H. Benjamin
Affiliation:
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine U. S. Department of Agriculture
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In handling some miscellaneous material belonging to the U. S. National Museum the writer noticed a unique specimen of a new genus and species of much interest as presenting additioiial evidence of the close relationship of those two large and important families, the Arctiidae and the Lymantriidae. A similar specimen, submitted by Dr. J. McDunnough, has served to amplify the descriptions.

Type
Articles
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 67 , Issue 9 , September 1935 , pp. 195 - 197
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1935

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

1 A visualization of the appearance of the present species may be obtained by consulting the figure of the femaile paratype of Parabarrovia keelci Gibson (1920, Rept. Can. Arc. Exped., 3 (1); pl. 5, fig. 9) which is similar in appearance except for the lack of the yellow collar. The descriptive text for P. keelei (l. c., p. 33) mentions some luteous on the fore wing of that species but this is not evident in the figure. The writer was inclined to think that this paratype might have represented a specimen of the present species, but Dr. McDunnough has stated otherwise.

2 In a region (Siberia-Alaska) which was in general, exempt from Pleistocene glaciation and cut off from the remainder of America by a continental ice cap.

3 While Hyalocoa superficially resembles the present new genus and has been placed placed in the Nyctemerinae by Seitz, Sir. G. O'Hale Carpenter has informed me that the single specimen (♀) of the genotype. Hyalocoa diaphana Eversm, in the Hope Museum, has arctiid venation, tongue, and ocelli. Lord Rothschild has informed me that the Tring Museum possesses 6 males and 1 female of Hyalocoa diaphana Bang-Haas, and that “the genus Hyalocoa is a true aretiid genus belonging to the subfamily Arctiinae.”