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Issue: Vol. 4545 No. 2: 17 Jan. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-01-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.2.7
Page range: 277–285
Abstract views: 95
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Two new day-flying species of Agrotis Ochsenheimer (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from the alpine summit of the Maunakea Volcano

The Urban School of San Francisco, 1563 Page St, San Francisco, CA, 94117 USA, and School of Life Sciences, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV 89154 USA.
Office of Maunakea Management, 640 North Aʻohōkū Place, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, HI, 96720 USA.
University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Dept. of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA.
University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Dept. of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA.
College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management, 200 W. Kawili St. University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI 96720 USA.
University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Dept. of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA.
Lepidoptera Hawaiʻi Mauna Kea Maunakea Mauna Loa Maunaloa Noctuinae morphology taxonomy

Abstract

Two new endemic Hawaiian species of Agrotis Ochsenheimer (Noctuidae) are described: A. helela and A. kuamauna. Both species are day-flying and occur at high-elevations. Observations of adult and larval morphology and biology are included, as well as illustrations of adult moths and genitalia for both sexes.

 

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