Abstract
Several taxonomic issues in the moth families Erebidae and Noctuidae are addressed for Northwestern North America. Drasteria parallelaCrabo & Mustelin andCycnia oregonensis tristisCrabo in the Erebidae and Eudryas brevipennis bonneville Shepard & Crabo, Resapamea diluvius Crabo, Resapamea angelika Crabo, Resapamea mammuthus Crabo, Fishia nigrescens Hammond & Crabo, and Xestia perquiritata orca Crabo & Hammond in the Noctuidae are described as new. The following new synonyms are proposed: Chytolita petrealis Grote with Herminea morbidalis Guenée; Gortyna columbia Barnes & Benjamin and Gortyna ximena Barnes & Benjamin with Gortyna obliqua Harvey; and Hydroecia pallescens Smith with Hydroecia medialis Smith. The type locality of Gortyna intermedia Barnes & Benjamin is restricted to Lundbreck, Municipality of Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada.
Highlights
IntroductionA website devoted to the macromoths (excluding the Geometridae) of the Pacific Northwest was recently created by a team that includes the authors of the current paper
A website devoted to the macromoths of the Pacific Northwest was recently created by a team that includes the authors of the current paper
A third barcode haplotype differing from both of these by slightly more than 2% exists for a single specimen of H. medialis from Wyoming (BOLDSYSTEMS Sample ID: CNCNoctuoidea6703)
Summary
A website devoted to the macromoths (excluding the Geometridae) of the Pacific Northwest was recently created by a team that includes the authors of the current paper. A large number of taxonomic changes in the superfamily Noctuoidea have recently been advanced in a new check list for North America north of Mexico (Lafontaine and Schmidt 2010) and in the first update to this list (Lafontaine and Schmidt 2011). Additional synonyms to those published by these authors were discovered during the website work, usually because a PNW species is known by more than one name. This paper is arranged in check list order following Lafontaine and Schmidt (2010)
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