Annotated Bibliography of References used at the Moth History Web Site

compiled by
Joe Kunkel


Barnes, Wm. and J. McDunnough. (1917). Check list of the Lepidoptera of boreal America. Herald Press, Decatur, ILL., pp 392.

Barnes, Wm. and J. McDunnough. (1918). Illustrations of the North American Species of the Genus Catocala. Memoirs of the Amer. Mus. Nat. His., New Series, Vol. III, Part I. pp 47, XXII Plates.

Buckler, William. (1889). The Larvae of the British Butterflies and Moths. (Vol. III. The Concluding Portion of the Bombyces) Ed. by H. T. Stainton. The Ray Society, London, 80 p., LII plates.

Comstock, J. H. (1893). Evolution and Taxonomy. An essay on the application of the theory of natural selection in the classification of animals and plants, illustrated by a study of the evolution of the wings of insects. Extract from The Wilder Quarter-Century Book, Ithaca, NY.

Comstock, J. H. and A. B. Comstock. (1895). A Manual for the Study of Insects. Comstock Publishing, Ithaca, N. Y., 701pp.

Dugdale, J. S. (1971) Entomology of the Aucklands and other islands south of NZ: Lepidoptera, excluding non-crambine Pyralidae. Pacific Insects Monographs 27:55-172

Dugdale, J. S. (1988) Lepidoptera - Annotated catalogue and keys to family-group taxa. The Fauna of New Zealand, Vol. 14: 199-210.
Noctuid checklist for New Zealand.

Dyar, Harrison G., 1866-1929. (1902). A list of the North American Lepidoptera and key to the literature of this order of insects. Smithsonian Institution. Government Printing Office. Bull. No. 51. pp 723.

Grote, Aug. R. (1882). New Check List of North American Moths. New York Entomological Club. pp 73.

Hampson, Sir George F., 1860-1936. (1903-13). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum, London.

Hardwick, D.F. (1996). A Monograph to the North American Heliothentinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). 281 pp. published by the Author.

Hodges, R. W., T. Dominick, D. R. Davis, D. C. Ferguson, J. G. Franclemont, E. G. Munroe, J. A. Powell (editors). (1983). Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico (Including Greenland). E. W. Classey Ltd. and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, London. 284 pp.

Holland, W. J.  (1903).  The Moth Book.  Doubleday, Page & Company, New York.

Lafontaine, J.D. (1987).  The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascile 27.2 Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (Part). The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.  237 pp.

McDunnough, J. (1938).  Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of America. Part 1, Macrolepidoptera. Mem. Southern California Acad. Sci. Vol. 1. pp 119+.

Nielsen, E.S., E.D. Edwards & T.V. Rangsi (1996) Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 4. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. CSIRO

Sargent, Theodore D. (1976). Legion of Night: the underwing moths. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 222 pp.
(Photos by Harold J. Vermes; drawings by Katherine A. Doktor Sargent.)

Smith, John B., 1858-1912. (1891). List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America. American Entomological Soc., Philadelphia, pp 124.

Smith, John B. (1893). A catalogue, bibliographical and synonymical, of the species of moths of the Lepidopterous superfamily Noctuidae, found in Boreal America, with critical notes. Smithsonian Institution. Government Printing Office, Washington. pp 424.

Smith, Sir James Edward, 1759-1828. (1797). The natural history of the rarer lepidopterous insects of Georgia. Collected from the observations of Mr. John Abbot many years resident of that country by James Edward Smith. London, printed by T. Bensley. 2 vol. 104 col. plates 42 cm.

Strecker, Herman. (1872). Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceras, Indigenous and Exotic; with Descriptions and Colored Illustrations. Reading, PA, Owen's Steam Book and Job Printing Office, 143 p., XV plates.



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