Nolidae
Creators: name: Pohl, Greg
name: Anweiler, Gary
name: Schmidt, Christian
name: Kondla, Norbert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nolidae

description: <i>62. Nolidae</i> The North American nolids are small (15–25 mm wingspan), mostly drab moths with variously shaped wings, although some topical groups are large and colorful, and very unlike temperate region species (see for example Holloway 2003). Th is group has been variously assigned to its own family or treated as a subfamily within the Noctuidae or the former Arctiidae (Kitching and Rawlins 1999) due to uncertain affinities of several unique structural traits. Recent molecular data shows that there is no support for including them within either the Erebidae or Noctuidae (Zahiri et al. in press), although a re-evaluation of morphological traits suggests they may be closer to the trifid Noctuidae (Fibiger et al. 2009), a position not refuted by the molecular evidence. They are well-defined as a group by a number of unique structural traits, including a boatshaped, double walled cocoon with a vertical exit slit. Approximately 1400 species of Nolidae are known worldwide. Th ey are most diverse in the Paleotropics. Th ere are currently 40 species in 10 genera in North America, excluding a number of undescribed species (BCS, unpubl. data); four species occur in AB. The genera <i>Nycteola</i> (Fletcher 1959; Rindge 1961) and <i>Baileya</i> (Brou 2004) have been revised. A few species are pests of cotton and sorghum. Adults of the genus <i>Arcyophora</i> feed on the tears of livestock and have been implicated in the transmission of viruses and infections. <i>62.1 Nolinae</i> Most nolines are small moths (̴ 20 mm wingspan), often with patches of raised scales on the forewings, bearing superficial resemblance to some lichen moth (Arctiinae: Lithosiini) lineages. Larvae of some genera have the unusual behaviour of stacking cast head capsules on top of the current head capsule. Of the 20 species in North America, only one occurs in AB. 1721 R <i>Nola cilicoides</i> (Grote, 1873) L Jun – L Aug – B g L: Bowman (1951) C: CNC, NFRC, OLDS, UASM <i>62.2 Chloephorinae</i> This subfamily includes a structurally and phylogenetically diverse number of nolid groups, loosely defined by the presence of tymbal (sound-producing) organs at the base of the abdomen. In North America the subfamily is however represented only by the tribe Sarrothripini, of which the genus <i>Nycteola</i> is typical. Recent molecular results show that the Sarrothripini likely did not derive from within the Chloephorinae (Za- hiri et al. in press), and the classification within the nolids will undoubtedly change. Only two <i>Nycteola</i> species occur in AB.
description: Published as part of <i>Pohl, Greg, Anweiler, Gary, Schmidt, Christian &amp; Kondla, Norbert, 2010, An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada, pp. 1-549 in ZooKeys 38 (38)</i> on page 252, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.38.383, http://zenodo.org/record/576629
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