Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
ZooKeys, vol. 40
Page(s):
1-239
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/1313-2989
Notes:
doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414 ; available online at http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/414/annotated-check-list-of-the-noctuoidea-insecta-lepidoptera-of-north-america-north-of-mexico
Reference for:
Notodonta torva
Notodonta torva: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China)
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Canada / Native
Notodonta torva: Comments
Comment:
This species was previously treated as N. simplaria. According to Lafontaine and Schmidt (2010), 'Schintlmeister ([1984]) treated N. simplaria (misspelled as 'simpliaria' in [1984] and in Schintlmeister 2008) as a subspecies of the widespread Eurasian species N. torva, based on similarity of male genitalic structure. In North America N. torva simplaria occurs at least as far north as west-central Northwest Territories and northern Yukon in Canada, so the single Holarctic species concept is plausible, but we also note that few taiga species are truly Holarctic (Mikkola et al. 1991) and more often they represent sibling species. This taxonomic arrangement should be carefully re-examined'