A Conserved Odorant Receptor Tuned to Floral Volatiles in Three Heliothinae Species. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Odorant receptors (ORs) play an important role in insects to monitor and adapt to the external environment, such as host plant location, oviposition-site selection, mate recognition and natural enemy avoidance.
Song Cao +3 more
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DNA Barcoding the Heliothinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Australia and Utility of DNA Barcodes for Pest Identification in Helicoverpa and Relatives. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Helicoverpa and Heliothis species include some of the world's most significant crop pests, causing billions of dollars of losses globally. As such, a number are regulated quarantine species.
Andrew Mitchell, David Gopurenko
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A new species of Schinia Hubner from the southeastern United States (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Heliothinae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2010 Schinia psamathea sp. n. is described from the southern coastal plain in Georgia and the East Gulf coastal plain in Florida and Alabama in habitats associated with sandy soil or dunes.
Michael Pogue
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Characterization and phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial genome of Macdunnoughia hybrida (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Plusiinae) [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021 Macdunnoughia hybrida is a polyphagous herbivorous moth within the family Noctuidae. In this study, we sequenced and analyzed the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of M. hybrida.
Yuanchen Zhang, Shuang Xue
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Species From the Heliothinae Complex (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Tucumán, Argentina, an Update of Geographical Distribution of Helicoverpa armigera. [PDF]
Journal of Insect Science, 2016 The Heliothinae complex in Argentina encompasses Helicoverpa gelotopoeon (Dyar), Helicoverpa zea (Boddie), Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner), and Chloridea virescens (Fabricius). In Tucumán, the native species H. gelotopoeon is one of the most voracious soybean pests and also affects cotton and chickpea, even more in soybean-chickpea succession cropping ...
Daniel R Sosa-Gómez
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Characterisation and phylogenetic analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome of Ctenoplusia albostriata (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Plusiinae) [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019 Ctenoplusia albostriata is a pest of composite plants such as Calendula officinalis L. and Dahlia pinnata. In this study, we sequenced and analyzed the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of C. albostriata.
Shuang Xue +3 more
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A Multiplex Real-Time PCR Assay to Diagnose and Separate Helicoverpa armigera and H. zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in the New World. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The Old World bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner), and the corn earworm, H. zea (Boddie), are two of the most important agricultural pests in the world. Diagnosing these two species is difficult-adults can only be separated with a complex dissection,
Todd M Gilligan +6 more
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The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 4. A new species of Schinia Hübner, 1818 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Heliothinae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2011 In 2006 the U.S. National Park Service initiated a long term study of the Lepidoptera at White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico. Schinia poguei sp. n., described here, was discovered in 2007, the second year of the study.
Eric Metzler, Gregory Forbes
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Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical, 2022 The tobacco budworm Chloridea (Heliothis) virescens (F.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) has been recently reported in corn crops. However, there is no information regarding the biology of this species feeding on corn cobs.
Orcial Ceolin Bortolotto +3 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Heliothine moths (Family Noctuidae : Subfamily Heliothinae) are ubiquitous crop pests with three documented species combinations known to hybridize: Helicoverpa zea x Helicoverpa armigera, H.
Victoria Ivey +2 more
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