Polia purpurissata (Grote, 1864)

Varga, Zoltán, Ronkay, Gábor, Nagy, Jenő & Ronkay, László, 2020, Contribution To The Taxonomy And Phylogeny Of The Genus Polia Ochsenheimer, 1816 (Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Hadenini): Species Groups And Pairs In The Holarctic Subgenus Polia S. Str., Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 66 (1), pp. 35-67 : 54

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.17109/AZH.66.1.35.2020
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6915376
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scientific name	Polia purpurissata (Grote, 1864)
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Eurois purpurissata Grote, 1864 , Entomological news, and proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 9: 82, pl. 1, fig. 5. Type-locality: USA, Pennsylvania.

Taxonomic notes. The widely distributed North American species shows a considerable geographical variation. However, only P. purpurissata apurpura (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913) has an allopatric range ( Arizona), while “ Mamestra languida Smith, 1893 ” possibly represents a rare hybrid with P. nugatis (see: MCCABE 1980: 24).