AN APPARENTLY NEW ALASKAN PLATYPTILIA (LEPIDOPTERA, PTEROPHORIDAE)

• Published in: The Canadian Entomologist
• Main Author: Lange, W. H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1940
• Subjects: Insect Science; Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; Paul Islands; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent7284-4; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X00099314

Barnes and Lindsey in their monograph of the American Pterophoridae mentioned the fact that they had examined a series of a Platyptilia in the Fernald collection from St. George and St. Paul Islands, Alaska, which was scarcely recognizable as P. pallidactyla Haw., but was placed under this species because of the poor nature of the series.