Not a tiger but a dagger: The larva of Comachara cadburyi and reassignment of the genus to Acronictinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 638-647

  Wagner, David L ^a   Hossler, Eric W ^a,b   Hossler, Fred E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b East Tennessee State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acronicta; Larval evolution; Nyssa; Wood boring

Indexed keywords

LARVA; MORPHOLOGY; MOTH; PHYLOGENETICS; PUPA;

ACRONICTA; ACRONICTINAE; ARCTIIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; NOLIDAE; NYSSA; NYSSACEAE; POLYGRAMMATE; POLYGRAMMATE HEBRAEICUM;

EID: 33750871434     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2006)99[638:NATBAD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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