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Lepidoptera of the Nevada Test Site Great Basin Naturalist Volume 29 Number 1 Article 8 3-28-1969 Lepidoptera of the Nevada Test Site Donald M. Allred Brigham Young University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn Recommended Citation Allred, Donald M. (1969) "Lepidoptera of the Nevada Test Site," Great Basin Naturalist: Vol. 29 : No. 1 , Article 8. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol29/iss1/8 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by the Western North American Naturalist Publications at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Great Basin Naturalist by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. NOTES LEPIDOPTERA OF THE NEVADA TEST SITE^ During ecological investigations by Brighani Young University at the Nevada Test Site between 1959 and 1965, many moths and butterflies were taken, mainly by incandescent and ultraviolet light-traps. Many of these were submitted to Dr. Jerry A. Powell, University of California at Berkeley, who kindly made some general as well as specific identifications as a basis for further studies with this difficult group of insects. These are reported herein. All listings are alphabetically arranged for convenience. Arctiidae Dioryctria nr gulosella Arachnis prob. picta Etiella zinckenella Pygaractia murina Eumysia mysiella Coleophoridae Heterographis morrisonella Heliodines nr sexpunctella Hulstia undulatella Scythris (12 spp.) Jocara sp. Cosmopterygidae Loxostege albiceralis Inga concolorella Nephopteryx bifasciella Geometridae Ommatopteryx texana Caripeta sp. Passadena flavidorsella Glaucina sp. Salebriacus odiosellus Phaeoura sp. Sosipatra rileyeUa Semiothisa nr colorata Staudingeria albipenella Stenospilates sp. Sphingidae Lasiocampidae Celerio lineata Gloveria arizonensis Sphinx dollii Noctuidae Tineidae Agrotis ypsilon Acrolophus laticapitanus Conochares nr arizonae Acrolophus variabilis Conochares nr hutsoni Acrolophus (4 spp.) Grotella sp. Dystospasta yumaeella Oxycnemis nr gtacillima Myrmecozela nr obliquella Phobolosia anfracta Tinea sp. Synedoida sp. Tortricidae Triocnemis sp. Decodes fragarianus Papilionidae Eucosma bobana Cercyonis sp. Eucosma nr bolanderana Pieris protodice Eucosma rorana Plutellidae Ofatulena duodecemstriata Abebaea sp. Phaneta indagatricana Cerostoma nr angelicella Phaneta setonana Cerostoma nr delicatella Platynota labiosana Cerostoma nr- flavistrigella Platynota nr yumana Plutella maculipennis Unplaced Pyralidae Adela punctijerella Dichozoma parvipicta —Donald M. Allred' 'BYU-AEC publication no. COOl 355-20. 42.
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