In 1841, T. W. Harris published "A Report on the Insects of Massachusetts, Injurious to Vegetation," a seminal work in North American Entomology and one of the first New World publications to describe Lepidoptera species. Although appearing in several subsequent editions, the eight family-group names proposed by Harris were largely overlooked. In summarizing Harris' family-group names, we show ...

Teratoglaea Sugi, 1958 is a peculiar noctuid genus and has long been considered to contain only one rare species, pacifica Sugi, 1958, ranging through the Manchurian-Pacific area of the north-eastern Palaearctic region (Japan, Korea, N. E. China, South of Russian Far East)(Sugi 1958; 1982; Kononenko et al. 1998; Chen, 1999; Kononenko 2005; Eda and Shikata 2011) and subtropical alpine Taiwan (Hr...

The taxonomically important characters and subgeneric subdivision of Dichagyris are presented with several historical nomenclatural considerations. Subdivision D. vallesiaca is revised based on the type material known subspecies. psammochroa group revised, description a new species, kurbatskyi from Kazakhstan, one subspecies, kopetdaghimena Kopet-Dagh massif. taftana species (D. guentereberti A...