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Post by vabrou on Feb 27, 2022 11:02:16 GMT -8
Notodontidae, new species in a new genus from louisiana and several SE US states. Female shown.
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Post by vabrou on Feb 27, 2022 11:07:22 GMT -8
Notodontidae, new species in Louisiana, a male shown. Though, this species has been known for at least 55 years, it has yet to be described in scientific literature. Occurs in the SE USA.
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Post by vabrou on Feb 27, 2022 11:07:50 GMT -8
New species of genus Azeta and this female is new US record capture. Appears to be a undescribed species which occurs in MEXICO.
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Post by vabrou on Feb 27, 2022 11:12:39 GMT -8
New undescribed noctuid from SE USA. I have a series of these from my home location in Louisiana. This species too has been known for a half century but not yet described in scientific literature.
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Post by vabrou on Feb 27, 2022 14:12:30 GMT -8
The well known lepidoptera researcher Douglas Ferguson captured a single specimen a more than a half century ago (1967) in Charleston County, South Carolina. Three decades later, I captured 18 adults of this same undescribed species here at my home in SE Louisiana. Ferguson sent his lone specimen to me when I told him I was describing it. He did, and I named it, the patronym: Chaetaglaea fergusoni Brou. Jour. Lepid. Soc. 51 (2), 1997, 135-138.
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Post by vabrou on Feb 27, 2022 14:36:29 GMT -8
Dichagyris broui Lafontaine. Here is a species I first captured here at my home, and others later in Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana. It has one annual brood in the fall. Here is the describing 'Type Series'
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Post by vabrou on Feb 27, 2022 14:37:15 GMT -8
Bagasara brouana Ferguson male & female. Here is a species I discovered about 40 years ago here at my home in SE Louisiana.
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Post by vabrou on Feb 27, 2022 14:52:01 GMT -8
2 Lapara new species discovered here at my home in SE Louisiana. I added one Lapara species new for the state of Louisiana capturing far more than 20,000 wild adults of Lapara coniferarum (J. E. Smith) in UV light traps here at my home in SE Louisiana.
Additionally, at the same location, I discovered over 5,000 wild captured adults of a smaller and darker newly discovered species I described as Lapara phaeobrachycerous Brou. This new species is smaller in size, darker in color, has usually a single postcellular forewing dash, narrower wings, significantly shorter antennae, and different flight periods.
Again, at the same location I discovered less that a dozen wild captured adults of another new Lapara species, larger in size, broader wings, and usually three postcellular forewing dashes. This species has remained undescribed all these decades waiting for additional type series material. The larvae of this species most probably feeds upon leaves of Pine. But, over the past two decades, several Hurricanes have destroyed about 90% of the Pine trees at this location. Here are side by side comparisons of the males.
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Post by vabrou on Feb 28, 2022 1:15:17 GMT -8
Recently, the noctuid genus Doryodes Guenée, was revised (Lafontaine & Sullivan, 2015). In addition to clarifying four long existing named Doryodes species in eastern North America, these authors described six new species.
Over the past 51 years (1969-2020), using self-designed automatic-capture ultraviolet light traps we collected and retained over 400 examples of Doryodes adults from across the state of Louisiana, hoping that one day we could sort out this material. As a consequence, there were a total of four species of Doryodes among this half century of material originating from Louisiana, (see jpg attached).
The somewhat surprising aspect about this analysis is that three new to science Louisiana species were all captured here at my home location in SE Louisiana. These newly described species are: seen on attached jpg. Fig. (1a-1h) Doryodes broui, Fig. (1j-1n) Doryodes reineckei, Figs. (1s-1v) Doryodes latistriga.
Also, in that same 2015 publication were three other newly described species from elsewhere the eastern USA . Later, Troubridge (2020) additionally described three more new species of Doryodes from the state of Florida. And there appears to be still more currently undescribed species of this mostly coastal habitat genus in other Gulf Coast states.
This is one of many hundreds of examples I have of what happens when you 'KEEP EVERYTHING'. To recoup, for centuries there were only four species names of the genus Doryodes on the North American lists of Lepidoptera. Yet in just a few years, nine (9) new species were added to the existing four species, and still there are several additional undescribed species of Doryodes waiting to be worked on.
I could have titled this post in a new thread titled 'Attempting to determine specimens via a photograph is folly' It is also an example of of why, what you think you have, may not be that species at all. I have made these declarations to entomologist for a half century. And, I have been publishing proof of this in hundreds of entomological publications. No, I am not a self-proclaimed 'EXPERT'. I'm just a curious bug collector that strives to improve the knowledge currently existing among scientific literature.
Along the way, my message has been. 'Don't believe anything you read as factual, look for yourself'. If you do , you too will be spouting this message. If you disagree, I can furnish >400 hundreds of similar examples like this one.
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Post by vabrou on Feb 28, 2022 2:41:45 GMT -8
I have been asked via E-mail, how did I know and discover 3 species of Lapara in my state, and even more discover two new species? I facetiously answer "its very easy, invent hundreds of new insect traps, run them continuously 24-hours daily for many decades, collecting and spreading thousands of specimens, and before you know it, -POOF !!!, you too can do it !!!". Truth be known, the very first Lapara species I captured in my state in 1972 were a handful of a new unknown species of what I much later described as Lapara phaeobrachycerous. In the dark kneeling at my UV light holding these specimens in 1972, I remarked at that time to a fellow collector who accompanied me back then, I stated "these are really funny looking coniferarum". Only two species of Lapara were recognized in scientific literature back then.
Here is another older 35mm film image of the three Louisiana adult pairs: one the long described NA species, Lapara coniferarum, side by side comparison to the smaller in size Lapara phaeobrachycerous, and also the larger, still undescribed species. And it really isn't as easy as you may assume to figure these matters out, as it is a daunting task to sort through thousands of similar appearing specimens before you. But, my first proof appeared by preparing phenograms based upon the thousands of captured adults. No one anywhere had done this before. The results were magical and revealed things previously unknown. And I did this same analysis for most of the >83,000 hawkmoths I eventually captured and documented in Louisiana. Along this journey, later I obtained similar detailed records for 40+ years of wild hawkmoth captures from my neighboring state of Mississippi documented by the noted Lepidopterists Bryant Mather. I created far more than 2,200 phenograms using pen and 18" long graph paper. As my 30-year hawkmoth publication appeared before the widespread advent of personal computers.
There are still a couple of currently undescribed hawkmoths in the state of Florida, including another undescribed species of Lapara. So collect everything. So very many fellow collectors have made this statement to me "Damn, there were hundreds at my light, but I just brought back this one, I thought they were just common stuff".
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Post by nomihoudai on Feb 28, 2022 13:15:18 GMT -8
I probably had a few unnamed ones in my collection as I used to collect Microlepidoptera in the tropics,... but finding the ones that already have a name is the tricky part.
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Post by vabrou on Mar 2, 2022 4:08:44 GMT -8
It is quite easy to discover new species, as I have discovered several hundreds of undescribed new species right out in my yard here at home. Here is one I was honored with a patronym: Cenopis vabroui Powell & Brown. 'KEEP EVERYTHING'
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Post by vabrou on Mar 2, 2022 4:15:27 GMT -8
Here is another newly discovered microlepidoptera species. This one too, I was honored with a Patronym: Dichrorampha broui E.C. Knudson
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Post by vabrou on Mar 2, 2022 4:21:26 GMT -8
Isoparce broui Eitschberger, 2001, this is the Holotype ♀ This specimen originates from Mexico. This one too I was honored with a Patronym. John Hyatt, you may remember this specimen which you were the intermediary in getting this specimen to Eitschberger. Up until then only one species of Isoparce was known in the world. (Isoparce cupressi)[/font][/font]
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Post by vabrou on Mar 2, 2022 4:36:48 GMT -8
Another new species, the geometrid Eupithicia broui Rindge, female from Louisiana shown here. When I sent 1,000+ adults of the genus Eupithecia from Louisiana back in the 1970s to Fred Rindge at the Am. Museum Nat. Hist., there were 7 species of this genus not previously documented for the state of Louisiana, four of which were undescribed species: Eupithecia peckorum Heitz. & Enns Eupithecia miserulata Grt. Eupithecia broui Rindge Eupithecia jejunata McD. Eupithecia matheri Rindge Eupithecia swettii Grossb. Eupithercia n.sp.
Rindge described two new species back then, one new species of Eupithecia still remains undescribed and so far only known from my home here in SE Louisiana.
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