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Sympistis Hübner, [1823]

Sympistis Hübner, [1823]; Verz. bek. Schmett. (17): 261, TS: Noctua melaleuca Thunberg
Sympistoides Kozhanchikov, 1947; Ent. Obozr. 29: 14, 19, 33, TS: Heliophobus grumi Alphéraky

= ; [POOLE]; [NE7, 36]

Funepistis Beck, 1991; Atalanta 22 (2/4): 217, TS: Noctua funebris Hübner
Sinupistis Beck, 1996; Neue Ent. Nachr. 36: 46, TS: Anarta nigrita Boisduval
Sympistis (Cuculliinae) ; [POOLE]
Sympistis (Oncocnemidini) ; [NACL, 147]; [NE7, 36]

Sympistis funebris (Hübner, [1809])

NEU - N.Siberia, Alps. See [About maps] Synkkä nopsayökkönen
Noctua funebris Hübner, [1809]; Samml. eur. Schmett. [4] : pl. 92, f. 433, TL: Europe [Lapponia]

= Sympistis funesta ; [NACL, #10162]

Noctua funesta Paykull, 1793; Skr. Naturh.-Selsk. Kiøbenhavn 2 (2): 100, pl. 2, f. 3 (preocc. Noctua funesta Esper, 1786), TL: Lapponia

= ; [POOLE]; [NE7, 39]

Sympistis funesta kurodakeana Matsumura, 1927; Ins. Matsumurana 1 (3) : 117, f. 7, TL: Hokkaido, Kurodake

= ; [POOLE]; [NE7, 39]

Sympistis funebris, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
Sympistis funebris, Svenska fjärilar [SVF]
Sympistis funebris, Norges Sommerfugler [NORLEP]
Sympistis funesta ; [NACL, #10162]
Sympistis funebris ; [POOLE]; [NE7, 39]

550x704 (~41Kb) FINLAND: Enl: Kilpisjärvi Saana, 6.7.1982, Photo © Pertti Pakkanen

500x295 (~21Kb) FINLAND: Lk: Muonio, 754:36, 7.7.1984, Markku Savela leg.

Larva on Betula nana, Vaccinium uliginosum

Sympistis cocklei (Dyar, 1904)

British Columbia, .... See [About maps] Homohedena[sic] cocklei Dyar, 1904; Can. Ent. 36 (2) : 31, TL: British Columbia, Ainsworth
Homohadena coclei Hampson, 1906; Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 6: 191 (emend.)
Sympistis cocklei ; [POOLE]
Sympistis funesta cocklei ; [NACL, #10162a]

Sympistis heliophila (Paykull, 1793)

NEU - N.Siberia, ..., Labrador, .... See [About maps] Valkonopsayökkönen
Noctua heliophila Paykull, 1793; Skr. Naturh.-Selsk. Kiøbenhavn 2 (2): 102, TL: Lapponia
Noctua melaleuca Thunberg, 1791; 42 (preocc. Noctua melaleuca Vieweg, 1790), TL: [Sweden]

= ; [POOLE]; [NE7, 42]

Phalaena (Noctua) leucoptera Esper, 1798; Die Schmett., Th. IV, Bd. 2 (Abs. 2) (49-50): 32, (Abs. 1) (49-50): pl. 189, f. 3, TL: Northern Lappland

= Sympistis melaleuca ; [NACL, #10156]
= ; [POOLE]; [NE7, 42]

Noctua moesta Hübner, [1808]; pl. 77, f. 357, TL: Europe

= Sympistis melaleuca ; [NACL, #10156]
= ; [POOLE]; [NE7, 42]

Anarta bicycla Packard, 1867; 41, TL: Labrador

= Sympistis melaleuca ; [NACL, #10156]
= ; [POOLE]; [NE7, 42]

Anarta melaleuca f. penthica Stichel, 1911; 80, pl. 1, f. 12

= ; [POOLE]; [NE7, 42]

Sympistis heliophila, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
Sympistis heliophila, E.H. Strickland Ent. Mus, U of [ALBERTA]
Sympistis heliophila, Svenska fjärilar [SVF]
Sympistis heliophila, Norges Sommerfugler [NORLEP]
Sympistis heliophila, Moths and Butterflies of Europe [MBE]
Sympistis melaleuca ; [NACL, #10156]
Sympistis heliophila ; [POOLE]; [NE7, 42]

500x760 (~56Kb) FINLAND: Li: Utsjoki, 775:49, 15.7.1981, Le: Enontekiö, 765:26, 12.7.1981, Ks: Kuusamo, 735:60, 12.7.1983, Markku Savela leg.

Larva on Empetrum nigrum

Sympistis lapponica (Thunberg, 1791)

NEU - N.Siberia, ..., Greenland. See [About maps] Jäkälänopsayökkönen
Noctua lapponica Thunberg, 1791; Diss. Ent. sistens Insecta Suecica (2): 42, TL: Lapponia
Anarta amissa Lefebvre, 1836; 397, pl. 10, f. 6-7, TL: Greenland; Lapponie

= ; [NACL, #10157]; [POOLE]; [NE7, 40]

Anarta tenebricosa Möschler, 1877; 498, TL: Greenland

= ; [NACL, #10157]; [POOLE]; [NE7, 40]

Sympistis lapponica, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
Sympistis lapponica, Svenska fjärilar [SVF]
Sympistis lapponica, Norges Sommerfugler [NORLEP]
Sympistis lapponica ; [NACL, #10157]; [POOLE]; [NE7, 40]

500x558 (~41Kb) FINLAND: Li: Utsjoki, 775:50, m 12.7.96, f 9.7.1983, Markku Savela leg.

Larva on Vaccinium myrtillus

Sympistis nigrita (Boisduval, 1840)

. See [About maps] Pörhönopsayökkönen
Anarta nigrita Boisduval, 1840; Genera Index Eur. Lepid. : 161, TL: Switzerland
Sympistis nigrita, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
Sympistis nigrita, Svenska fjärilar [SVF]
Sympistis nigrita, Norges Sommerfugler [NORLEP]
Sympistis nigrita ; [NE7, 43]

Larva on Dryas octopetala

S. n. nigrita

Alps vidua Freyer, [1839]

= ; [NE7, 44]

Sympistis nigrita ; [POOLE]
Sympistis nigrita nigrita ; [NE7, 44]

S. n. zetterstedtii (Staudinger, 1857)

NEU, N.Siberia Anarta zetterstedtii Staudinger, 1857; Stettin ent. Ztg 18 (7-9) : 294, TL: Lapponia
Anarta kolthoffi Aurivillius, 1890; 20, pl. 2, f. 1, TL: Greenland, Harön; Patoot; Atanekerdluk; Godhavn

= Sympistis zetterstedtii ; [POOLE]
= ; [NE7, 44]

Sympistis kolthoffi ; [NACL, #10160]
Sympistis zetterstedti ; [NACL, #10159]
Sympistis zetterstedtii ; [POOLE]
Sympistis nigrita zetterstedtii ; [NE7, 44]

500x534 (~35Kb) FINLAND: Enl: Kilpisjärvi, Saana, 20.7.1964, M.Saaristo leg., 10.7.1964, Kaj Savonius leg.

S. n. sibirica Alphéraky, 1895

N.Mongolia Sympistis sibirica Alphéraky, 1895; 195, TL: N.Mongolia, Ourga

= Sympistis zetterstedtii ; [POOLE]
= Sympistis zetterstedti ; [NACL, #10159]

Sympistis nigrita sibirica ; [NE7, 43 (note)]

S. n. labradoris (Staudinger, 1901)

Labrador, ... Anarta zetterstedtii var. labradoris Staudinger, 1901; 219, TL: Labrador

= Sympistis zetterstedtii ; [POOLE]

Sympistis zetterstedti labradoris ; [NACL, #10159a]
Sympistis nigrita labradoris ; [NE7, 43 (note)]

Sympistis daishi (Alphéraky, 1892)

Yunnan, Sichuan. See [About maps] Hypsophila daishi Alphéraky, 1892; 43, pl. 2, f. 9, TL: Sichuan, Honton River
Anarta albicilia Draudt, 1950; 23, pl. 1, 12, TL: Yunnan; Sichuan

= ; [POOLE]

Sympistis daishi ; [POOLE]

Sympistis wilsoni Barnes & Benjamin, 1924

British Columbia, .... See [About maps] Sympistis wilsoni Barnes & Benjamin, 1924; 213, TL: British Columbia, Mt. Cheam
Sympistis wilsoni, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
Sympistis wilsoni ; [POOLE]; [NACL, #10158]

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References:

[ALBERTA]

University of Alberta, E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum; Browse Entomology Collection

[About maps]

Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

[BHL]

The; Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!

[ESP]

Heppner, 1981; The dates of E. J. C. Esper's Die Schmetterlinge in Abblidungen... 1776-[1830]; Archives of Natural History (1981) 10 (2): 251-254

[HBN]

Francis Hemming, 1937; HÜBNER, A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner and of the supplements thereto by Carl Geyer, Gottfried Franz von Frölich and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, Vol 1 & 2

[MBE]

Moths and Butteflies of Europe; Paolo Mazzei, Diego Reggianti and Ilaria Pimpinelli; http://www.leps.it/

[MPG]

North American Moth Photographers Group

[NACL]

Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico

[NE7]

Ronkay, G., & Ronkay, L., 1995; Cuculliinae II - Noctuidae Europaeae; Volume 7, 224pp

[NORLEP]

Norges Sommerfugler

[POOLE]

Poole, R. W, 1989; Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum catalogus (New Series, Fasc. 118)

[Pertti Pakkanen]

e-mail: Pertti Pakkanen; Butterfly and moth observations from Finland

[SVF]

Svenska fjärilar; Naturhistoriska riksmuseet; (Sweden)

Some related literature:

Alphéraky, 1892

Lepidoptera nova a Gr. Grum-Grshimailo in Asia Centrali novissime lecta Horae Soc. ent. ross. 26 (3-4) : 444-459

Beck, 1991

Taxonomische Änderungen bei den Noctuinae, Cuculliinae und Plusiinae Atalanta 22 (2/4): 175-232

Boisduval, 1840

Genera et Index Methodicus Europaeorum Lepidopterorum Genera Index Eur. Lepid.: 238pp : 1-238

Dyar, 1904

New Noctuidae from British Columbia Can. Ent. 36 (2) : 29-33

Esper, 1798

Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Theil IV. Die Eulenphalenen Die Schmett., Th. IV, Bd. 2 (Abs. 1) (48): 373-420, pl. 184-186 (Noct. 105-107) (1796), (Abs. 1) (49-50): 421-464, pl. 187-191 (Noct. 108-112) (1798), (Abs. 1) (51): 465-496, pl. [192],[193] (Noct. 113-114) ([1799-1803]), (Abs. 1) (52): 497-536, pl. 194-195 (Noct. 115-116) (1804), (Abs. 1) (53): 537-632, pl. 196 (Noct. 117) (1804), (Abs. 1) (54): 633-698, pl. 197-198 (Noct. 118-119) (1805), (Abs. 2) (49-50): 1-44 (1798), (Abs. 2) (51): 45-54 ([1799-1803]), (Abs. 2) (52): 55-62 (1804), (Abs. 2) (53): 63-85 (1805)

Hampson, 1906

Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 6: i-xiv, 1-532, pl. 96-107, 7: 108 (f. 1-8)

Hübner, [1809]

Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge. IV. Noctuae - Eulen ("Dritte Band") Samml. eur. Schmett. [4] : 155-194, : pl. 1-74, f. 1-345 (1800-1803), : pl. 75-86, f. 346-405 (1803-1808), : pl. 87-96, f. 406-455 (1808-1809), : pl. 97-134, f. 456-615 (1809-1813), : pl. 135-139, f. 616-638 (1814-1817), : pl. 140-141, f. 639-647 (1818-1819), : pl. 142-150, f. 648-697 (1819-1822), : pl. 151, f. 698-703 (1823), : pl. 152-156, f. 704-732 (1823-1824), : pl. 157, f. 733-736 (1825-1826), : pl. 158-160, f. 737-752 (1827-1828), : pl. 161-162, f. 753-765 (1828-1830), : pl. 163-169, f. 766-802 (1828-1832), : pl. 170-171, f. 803-812 (1832-1833), : pl. 172-176, f. 813-839 (1834), : pl. 177-179, f. 840-853 (1834-1835), : pl. 180, f. 854-858 (1834-1835), : pl. 181, f. 859-863 (1836), : pl. 182, f. 864-868 (1836-1838), : pl. 183, f. 869-873 (1837-1838), : pl. 184-185, f. 874-882 (1838), : [7], 8-24 (1834?)

Hübner, [1823]

Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge, 1816-[1826] Verz. bek. Schmett. (1): [1-3], 4-16 (1816), (2): 17-32 (1819), (3): 33-48 (1819), (4): 49-64 (1819), (5): 65-80 (1819), (6): 81-96 (1819), (7): 97-112 (1819), (8): 113-128 (1819), (9): 129-144 (1819), (10): 145-160 (1819), (11): 161-176 (1819), (12): 177-192 (1820), (13): 193-208 (1820), (14): 209-224 (1821), (15): 225-240 (1821), (16): 241-256 (1821), (17): 257-272 (1823), (18): 273-288 (1823), (19): 289-304 (1823), (20): 305-320 (1825), (21): 321-336 (1825), (22): 337-352 (1825), (23-27): 353-431 ([1825])

Matsumura, 1927

A list of moths collected on Mt. Daisetsu, with descriptions of new species Ins. Matsumurana 1 (3) : 109-119

Staudinger, 1857

Beitrag zur Kenntniss der nordischen Anarta-Arten Stettin ent. Ztg 18 (7-9) : 289-298

Thunberg, 1791

Dissertio Entomologica sistens Insecta Suecica, ... Diss. Ent. sistens Insecta Suecica (1): 1-24 (1 plate) (1784), (2): [25-31] ??], 32-46 (9 unnumbered) (1791), (3): [47],48-52 (2 unnumbered) (1792), (4): 53-62 (1792)

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