A new cryptic Sympistis from eastern North America revealed by novel larval phenotype and host plant association (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Oncocnemidinae).

ABSTRACT: A Triosteum-feeding species of Sympistis is described from eastern North America: Sympistis forbesi sp. n. Identity of the new species is most reliably determined from larval morphology and host plant association-both adult scaling and genitalic characters overlap with those of Sympisitis chionanthi, a Chionanthus and Fraxinus feeder.

SUBMITTER: Zacharczenko B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3935229 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature