Description of the pupae of three western Palaearctic noctuids (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae)
Popis kukel tří druhů západopalearktických můrovitých (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae)
English, Czech summary
Klapalekiana 44(1–2): 43-49, 2008
Jan Patočka & Marek Turčáni
Publikované v tisku: 15. 9. 2008
Zobrazení: 161
Abstrakt: The pupae of the following three western Palaearctic species of the Noctuidae
(subfamily Heliothinae) are described: Chazaria incarnata (Freyer, 1828),
Pyrrhia victorina (Sodoffski, 1849), and Brithys crini (Fabricius, 1775). The
main morphological characters are illustrated and compared with related noctuid
moth species, and the differences are discussed. The systematic status and
position of described species in currently used systems is also discussed from
the point of view of morphology of their pupae.
Klíčová slova: Pupae, comparative morphology, taxonomy, Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Western Palaearctic region