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Toward a Stable Global Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) Taxonomy
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- 1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Road,Unit 3043,Storrs, CT 06269-3043, USA,
- 2. Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 37, 223 62 Lund, Sweden,
- 3. Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak), Hamburg University, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146, Hamburg, Germany,
- 4. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK,
- 5. Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Bldg., 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada,
- 6. Systematic Entomology Laboratory,USDA-ARS,National Museum of Natural History,10th Street and Constitution Avenue,NW Washington,DC 20560,USA
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Keegan, Kevin L., Rota, Jadranka, Zahiri, Reza, Zilli, Alberto, Wahlberg, Niklas, Schmidt, B. Christian, Lafontaine, J. Donald, Goldstein, Paul Z., Wagner, David L. (2021): Toward a Stable Global Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) Taxonomy. Insect Systematics and Diversity (AIFB) 5 (3): 1-24, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixab005, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixab005
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