Polia (Polia) richardsoni (Curtis, 1835)

Varga, Zoltan, Ronkay, Gabor & Ronkay, Laszlo, 2017, Revised taxonomic check list of the Eurasiatic species of the subtribe Poliina (Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Hadenini), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 64 (2), pp. 133-160 : 137

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scientific name

Polia (Polia) richardsoni (Curtis, 1835)
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Hadena richardsoni Curtis, 1835, Appendix to John Ross Narrative of a Second Voyage 1835: 72, pl, A, fig. 11. Type-locality: [Canada] 15 miles from River Tatchick (Eskimo name), 200 miles S of Port Bowen, very near Comptroller’s Island. Types: in coll. USNMW.

Synonymy.

Anarta algida Lefebvre, 1836,Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 5: 396, pl. 10 fig. 5. Type-locality: “Laponie”. Syntypes, in coll. MNHNP;

Anarta septentrionis Walker, 1857, List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 11: 700. Type-locality: [Canada] Repulse Bay. Holotype: in coll. BMNH;

Mamestra feildeni McLachlan, 1878, Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 14: 112. Type-locality: Canada Arctic Territories, Dobbin Bay. Holotype: female;

Anarta fumida Graeser, 1889, Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 32(2): 323. Type-locality: [Russia], Amur region, Amur region, Nicolajefsk (Nikolajevsk). Holotype: male, in coll. ZISP;

Anarta lanuginosa Smith, 1900, in: Dyar, Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 2: 493. Type-locality: USA, Alaska, Popof Island. Holotype: male, in coll. USNMW;

Anarta richardsoni var. dovrensis Staudinger, 1901, in Staudinger and Rebel, Catalog der Lepidopteren des Palaearctischen Faunengebietes 1901: 218. Type-locality: [Norway] Dovre. Syntypes: in coll. MNB;

Anarta squara Smith, 1908, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 18: 112. Type-locality: Greenland. Lectotype: male, in coll. AMNHN;

Anarta magna Barnes and Benjamin, 1924, Entomological News 35: 117. Type-locality: USA, Colorado, Hall valley, Bullion peak. Holotype, female, in coll. USNMW;

Anarta richardsoni tamsi Benjamin, 1933, Pan-Pacific Entomologist 9: 58. Type-locality: [Canada] Labrador, Hopedale. Holotype: male, in coll. USNMW;

Aplecta richardsoni groenlandica Heydemann, 1944, Entomologische Zeitung, Entomologischen Vereine zu Stettin 105: 22, pl. 7, figs 5-6. Type-locality: East Greenland. Syntypes: in coll. MNB.

Taxonomic notes.

This circumpolar Holarctic species shows intense subspeciation in both continents; the taxonomic stati of the described taxa are to be clarified.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Polia