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Volume
15 & 16
Bornean
moths in the noctuid subfamily Catocalinae are described. The
Catocalinae are treated in a broad sense, including also the old concept
of the Ophiderinae, but this assemblage is probably paraphyletic as
discussed in an introductory review of the classification and the
characters of all stages that may be relevant. As a contribution to the
development of a better classification of the group, the species are
divided amongst 18 tribes, 4 further groups of genera that may be
monophyletic, and 6 miscellaneous sequences of genera. The first 12 of
these groupings are suggested to offer a more restricted, clearly
defined and possibly monophyletic concept of the Catocalinae. Two new
tribes outside this concept are proposed, the Sypnini and Anobini.
The treatment covers 591 species distributed over 222 genera. For each
species, a diagnosis and the geographical range are given and, where
known, details of habitat preference and biology. Summary lists are
provided of the new taxa described (2 tribes, 4 genera, 99 species and 1
subspecies) as well as of numerous other taxonomic changes. A checklist
of all species summarises the fauna.
Publication
date: 2005
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