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THE NOCTUIDÆ OF EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA COMPARED.: (Sixth Paper.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

A. R. Grote
A. R. Grote
Affiliation:
Bremen, Germany.
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This tribe is, so far as I know, exclusively American. The thorax is elevated, the patagia usually deflected. The eyes are naked; the front embossed; the legs thinly scaled, with a claw on front tibiæ; the abdomend somewhat short and weak, untufted on dorsum; the wings pointed at tips. The genera seem to fall in between Calpe and Plusia* They are: Basilodes, Stiria, Stibadium, Fala, Plagiomimicus, Acopa. The genus Cirrhophanus probably belongs to the Heliothini; we do not know the larva, but the moth is allied to Chariclea delphinii, by the Hübnerian charcter of the pattern of ornamentation.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , April 1890 , pp. 69 - 72
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1890

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* In reference to the question of rank in the Lepidoptera and to a former paper of mine in these pages, I would state that, while from morphological grounds, we must consider the four-footed butterflies as the highest, the sequence within the family must be decied on comparative grounds. It may be that the Satyrinæ are the lowest sub-family group of the Nymphalidæ, but they must be neverthless classed witht he family. The characters by which the butterflies approach the moths are apparent in all the groups, as might be expected if we consider the moths to represent an older phase of the Lepidoptera. The highest Nymphalidæ must be sought for in the tropics; but it may be, that the sequence in our North American fauna is to be inaugurated by the Hackberry butterflies.