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NOCTUA COMES, A NOCTUID NEW TO NORTH AMERICA (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE: NOCTUINAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Kenneth A. Neil
Kenneth A. Neil
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Bumaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6
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On 19 August 1982, a female noctuid moth resembling the Palearctic species Noctua pronuba (Linnaeus), which has recently been introduced into Eastern Canada (Neil 1981), was collected at an ultraviolet light at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. An additional specimen, a male, was taken 13 September 1982. A third was seen, but not captured, 2 September 1982. A comparison of the British Columbia material with figures and descriptions of other Noctua species given by Bretherton et al. (1979) revealed them to represent Noctua comes (Hübner), based on their smaller size, light brown, narrow primaries, and well defined discal dot on the secondaries. This preliminary identification was later confirmed by external morphological and genitalic comparison with specimens of various Noctua species obtained from the Nova Scotia Museum collection in Halifax.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 116 , Issue 3 , March 1984 , pp. 479 - 480
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1984

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