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Issue: Vol. 226 No. 1: 30 Jun. 2003
Type: Article
Published: 2003-06-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.226.1.1
Page range: 1–8
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 5

Revised status of Schinia unimacula Smith including morphological comparisons with Schinia obliqua Smith (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae)

Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, c/o Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, NMNH, MRC-168, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA
8834 West Quarto Avenue, Littleton, CO, 80128, USA
Lepidoptera Schinia unimacula Schinia obliqua taxonomy biology host plant Ericameria nauseosa

Abstract

Schinia unimacula is resurrected from the synonymy of S. obliqua and is treated as a full species based on differences in maculation and male and female genitalic structures. Schinia coolidgei Hill remains a synonym of S. unimacula. Genitalia of both sexes of S. unimacula and S. obliqua are described and illustrated for the first time.

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