La collection Jacques Plante Noctuidae / The Jacques Plante Noctuidae Collection. Pt 2: Amphipyrinae, Psaphidinae, Cuculliinae, Oncocnemidinae, Acontiinae, Pantheinae, Dyopsinae, Raphiinae, Acronictinae, Bryophilinae, Heliothinae, Condicinae & Xyleninae.

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Text French/English. Jacques Plante (1920-2003) achieved outstanding success as a song writer and as a noctuid specialist. At the time of its acquisition by the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève in 2000, J. Plante's collection of Noctuidae was the largest in private hands with respect to the Palaearctic and Oriental faunas. The Noctuinae and Hadeninae were treated in the first volume of the present series. This second volume includes descriptions of new taxa of the rest of the collection's subfamilies (Amphipyrinae, Psaphidinae, Cuculliinae, Oncocnemidinae, Acontiinae, Pantheinae, Dyopsinae, Raphiinae, Acronictinae, Bryophilinae, Heliothinae, Condicinae and Xyleninae). These new taxa are 20 genera, 5 subgenera, 128 species, and 39 subspecies. Surprisingly, a considerable number of these new taxa was discovered in the 'well-known' groups of Noctuidae and in 'well-known' areas like Europe, or the Far East (e.g. the Russian Far East, Japan, Taiwan and Indochina). The new species and subspecies are illustrated as magnified colour images at 8 per plate, and 462 genitalia preparations are shown in black and white.

This book will serve as a milestone in our understanding of the eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Noctuidae and will inspire future revisions of hitherto neglected Noctuidae groups. It is hoped that, as with Volume 1, this book will serve as a handbook for taxonomists, professional and amateur collectors, curators of institutional collections, and naturalists interested in the biodiversity of the Eurasian fauna of the family Noctuidae.

Memoires de la societe physique et d'histoire naturelle de Geneve Vol. 49 Tome 2.