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A CATALOGUE OF THE EGGS OF SOME CANADIAN NOCTUIDAE (LEPIDOPTERA)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

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Abstract

Presented, with notes, are 124 plates of SEM illustrations of noctuid eggs representing 14 subfamilies of the Noctuidae: one species of Agaristinae, four species of Pantheinae, six species of Acronictinae, 34 species of Noctuinae, 26 species of Hadeninae, 10 species of Cuculliinae, 14 species of Amphipyrinae, three species of Acontiinae, two species of Euteliinae, two species of Plusiinae, 11 species of Catocalinae, one species of Hypeninae, one species of Rivulinae, and nine species of Herminiinae.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1984

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