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New host records of polyphagous Lepidoptera on Ban Oak Quercus leucotrichophora A. Camus (Fabaceae) in the Garhwal Himalaya, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2019
The paper provides information on the life history stages of 12 species of Lepidoptera recorded for the first time feeding on Ban Oak Quercus leucotrichophora in Garhwal Himalaya, supported by images along with their distribution range and host plants ...
Arun Pratap Singh, Kalpana Bahuguna, Gaurav Chand Ramola   +2 more
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New and interesting findings of the Lepidoptera from Astrakhan and Volgograd Territories (Southern Russia)

Acta Biologica Sibirica, 2023
Two species of moths, Drasteria christophi (Alphéraky, 1895) (Erebidae) and Protarchanara abrupta Eversmann, 1854 (Noctuidae), are reported from Russia for the first time; seventeen species of Notodontidae and Noctuidae are found as new for the fauna of ...
Sergei A. Rybalkin, Roman V. Yakovlev, Balázs Benedek   +2 more
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Depilation increases while hairiness decreases the risk of drowning: A hitherto unappreciated survival role of setae in woolly bear caterpillars of the moth Lemyra imparilis (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2016
This note aims to put on record a hitherto unreported function of caterpillar setae supplementary to those already known. When woolly bear caterpillars of the moth Lemyra imparilis (Butler) have their body hairs removed and are dropped into a bucket of ...
V. Benno MEYER-ROCHOW
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Eight new records of family Erebidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2017
Eight species, spread over six subfamilies of family Erebidae, Ischyja hagenii (Snellen, 1885), Ophisma pallescens (Walker, [1863] 1864), Serrodes caesia Warren, 1915, Simplicia bimarginata (Walker, [1863], 1864), Diomea fasciata (Leech, 1900), Platyja ...
Jagbir Singh Kirti, Navneet Singh, Harkanwal Singh   +2 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Dysgonia stuposa (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) and phylogenetic relationships within Noctuoidea [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
To determine the Dysgonia stuposa mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) structure and to clarify its phylogenetic position, the entire mitogenome of D. stuposa was sequenced and annotated. The D. stuposa mitogenome is 15,721 bp in size and contains 37 genes (
Yuxuan Sun, Yeshu Zhu, Chen Chen, Qunshan Zhu, Qianqian Zhu, Yanyue Zhou, Xiaojun Zhou, Peijun Zhu, Jun Li, Haijun Zhang   +9 more
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Double strand RNA-mediated RNA interference through feeding in larval gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (Lepidoptera: Erebidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2017
RNA interference (RNAi) technology uses dsRNAs to silence specific targeted genes by downregulating their expression. It has become a potent tool for functional and regulatory studies of insect genes and has potential to be applied for insect control ...
Saikat Kumar B. GHOSH, Dawn E. GUNDERSEN-RINDAL   +1 more
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Дополнение к фауне чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) заповедника «Бастак» (Дальний Восток России): весенне-раннелетний аспект

Амурский зоологический журнал, 2023
Исследован весенне-раннелетний аспект фауны макрочешуекрылых заповедника «Бастак». Отмечены 160 видов, относящиеся к 24 семействам. Из них для фауны заповедника «Бастак» впервые приведены два семейства (Sesiidae, Zygaenidae) и 65 видов. Один вид, Hypena
Евгений Сергеевич Кошкин
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Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of Spilarctia robusta (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae) and its phylogenetic implications

European Journal of Entomology, 2016
The complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of Spilarctia robusta (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae) was sequenced and analyzed. The circular mitogenome is made up of 15,447 base pairs (bp). It contains a set of 37 genes, with the gene complement and
Yu SUN, Sen TIAN, Cen QIAN, Yu-Xuan SUN, Muhammad N. ABBAS, Saima KAUSAR, Lei WANG, Guoqing WEI, Bao-Jian ZHU, Chao-Liang LIU   +9 more
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Checklist of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Tamil Nadu, Western Ghats, India [PDF]

Check List, 2017
A checklist of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Erebidae, Noctuidae, Euteliidae, and Nolidae) from Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve and Kodaikanal Hills in Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu is presented.
Kuppusamy Sivasankaran, Sekar Anand, Pratheesh Mathew, Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu   +3 more
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New records of Macroheterocera (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from the southernmost part of the Khabarovsk Krai (Russian Far East)

Acta Biologica Sibirica
Fourteen species of Lepidoptera from the families Limacodidae, Uraniidae, Notodontidae, Erebidae, Nolidae, and Noctuidae are reported from the Bikin District (Khabarovsk Krai, Russia). Among these, Rhamnosa angulata Fixsen, 1887 (Limacodidae), Dysaethria
Evgeny S. Koshkin
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