La collection Jacques Plante Noctuidae / The Jacques Plante Noctuidae Collection. Pt 3: 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. This is the third and final part of the Catalogue of the Plante Noctuidae Collection. The Jacques Plante Noctuidae Collection is highly important for the fauna of the western Himalayan region, Nepal and Bengal, but also contains very rich material from the Atlas Mountains, Asia Minor, Iran, Afghanistan, southern Tibet, northern Indochina, Japan, and Taiwan, and also from the Sundaland and the Wallacea.

The third volume of the series includes the list of 2299 species and subspecies of 535 genera and subgenera belonging to 13 subfamilies based on the investigations of ca 30,000 specimens. There are only a few new genera and subgenera described in the book as new for the science but the forthcoming revisions of several genera will produce a considerable increase of the actually unrecognised and undescribed taxa even within these parts of the Plante Collection. All distinguishable taxa are illustrated to show the pattern and colour variations in the given species and subspecies represented in the collection. The 170 colour plates demonstrate the richness of the collection, as well as the extraordinary diversity in the 13 noctuid subfamilies mentioned in the title of the volume.

Memoires de la societe physique et d'histoire naturelle de Geneve Vol. 49 Tome 3.