| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1996 |
| Authors: | S. E. Miller |
| Journal: | Bishop Museum Occasional PapersBishop Museum Occasional Papers |
| Volume: | 46 |
| Pagination: | 28-31 |
| Keywords: | Crambidae, Crocidosema, HAWAII, LEPIDOPTERA, Noctuidae, Pacific Insects, Pyralidae, Sphingidae, taxonomy, TORTRICIDAE |
| Abstract: | This paper summarizes some of the changes in understanding of moth species in the Hawaiian Islands through the ongoing activities of the Hawaii Biological Survey. Two kinds of changes are recorded here: changes in understanding of distributions based on specimens accumulated at Bishop Museum (BPBM), and changes in nomenclature resulting from taxonomic work published elsewhere. Many of these taxonomic changes have already been incorporated in Nishida (1994), but this paper provides the background. This paper builds on recent reviews of Sphingidae (Riotte 1986), Noctuoidea (Riotte 1991) and Pyraloidea (Munroe 1989). The recent field guide to Pyraloidea and Microlepidoptera by Robinson et al. (1994), although not intended to cover the Hawaiian fauna, is very useful for family-level identifications and includes many species that occur in Hawaii. |
| Short Title: | Bishop Museum Occ. Pap. |