The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico 12; the Description of Sympistis sierrablanca (Noctuidae: Oncocnemidinae) Another White Species From the Gypsum Dunes

E. H. Metzler; C. L. Scott-Tracey

doi:10.1093/isd/ixy017

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31 December 2022 The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico 12; the Description of Sympistis sierrablanca (Noctuidae: Oncocnemidinae) Another White Species From the Gypsum Dunes

E. H. Metzler, C. L. Scott-Tracey

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Insect Systematics and Diversity, 3(1):1-6 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixy017

Abstract

In 2006, the U.S. National Park Service invited Metzler to conduct a 10-yr study of the moths at White Sands National Monument, Otero County, in theTularosa Basin in southern New Mexico. No other location of similar size, 0.72 km², in the North America is reported to have more endemic species of moths. Sympistis sierrablanca Metzler and Scott-Tracey, sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), perhaps not an endemic, described here is another of the white species of moths in the geologically young (8000 BP) dunes formation. Adult moths and male and female genitalia are illustrated.

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E. H. Metzler and C. L. Scott-Tracey "The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico 12; the Description of Sympistis sierrablanca (Noctuidae: Oncocnemidinae) Another White Species From the Gypsum Dunes," Insect Systematics and Diversity 3(1), 1-6, (31 December 2022). https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixy017

Received: 16 May 2018; Accepted: 10 October 2018; Published: 31 December 2022

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