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Issue: Vol. 294 No. 1: 12 Sept. 2003
Type: Article
Published: 2003-09-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.294.1.1
Page range: 1–16
Abstract views: 42
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Systematics of Schinia cupes (Grote) complex: Revised status of Schinia crotchii (Hy. Edwards) (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 Ave., Littleton, CO, 80128, USA
Lepidoptera systematics genitalia morphology comparison host plant Calylophus berlandiera Spach var. berlandiera Camissonia claviformis

Abstract

The revised status of Schinia crotchii is based on differences in male and female genitalic structures and distribution of larval host plant. Schinia navarra Dyar remains a synonym of S. cupes (Grote). Genitalia of both sexes of S. crotchii, S. cupes, and S. deserticola Barnes and McDunnough are described and illustrated for the first time. Distributions of larval hosts of both S. crotchii and S. deserticola are mapped and compared with adult moth distributions.

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