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Figs 1-47, 8, 111314
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="136">Type material.</paragraph>
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Holotype female, pinned with label as follows: &quot;USA: NM: Otero Co. White Sands Nat[ional] Mon[ument], interdune habitat,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="-106.180664">106°10.84'W</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="32.777332">32°46.64'N</geoCoordinate>
, 4,008'
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10 Oct[ober]. 2010, WsnmF, Eric H. Metzler, uv tr[a]p, Accss #: WHSA - 00131&quot; &quot;HOLOTYPE USNM
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Metzler &amp; Forbes&quot; [red handwritten label] (USNM). Paratypes: 290 males and 107 females: NM: Otero Co. White Sands Nat[ional] Mon[ument] (hereafter WSNM) same data as Holotype. USA: NM: Otero Co. White Sands Nat[ional] Mon[ument], interdune habitat,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="-106.180664">106°10.84'W</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="32.777332">32°46.64'N</geoCoordinate>
, 4,008', 4 Oct[ober]. 2010, WsnmF, Eric H. Metzler, uv tr[a]p, Accss #: WHSA - 00131 USA: NM: Otero Co. WSNM, interdune habitat,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="-106.1915">106°11.49'W</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="32.76">32°45.60'N</geoCoordinate>
, 4,000', 14 Sept[ember] 2009, WSNMB, Eric H. Metzler, uv tr[a]p, Accss
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: WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. WSNM, interdune habitat,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="-106.18967">106°11.38'W</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="32.778168">32°46.69'N</geoCoordinate>
, 4,000', 14 Sept[ember] 2009, WSNM8 Eric H. Metzler, uv tr[a]p, Accss #: WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. WSNM, interdune habitat,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="-106.18867">106°11.32'W</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="32.762">32°45.72'N</geoCoordinate>
, 4,000', 14 Sept[ember] 2009, WSNM9 Eric H. Metzler, uv tr[a]p, Accss #: WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. WSNM, 4000 ft.
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="32.7615">32°45'41.4&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-106.189255">106°11'21.3&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, 5 X 2007, G. Forbes, 15w blacklight, interdune area with cottonwoods 2 mi SW Administration Bldg. ACCESSION NUMBER WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. WSNM, 4008 ft. Storage area W of Big Pedestal Rd. 23 IX 2008, G. Forbes, 15w blacklight,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="32.778416">32°46'42.3&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-106.1808">106°10'50.9&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, interdune scrub, ACCESSION NUMBER WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. WSNM, 4000 ft.
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="32.761787">32°45'42.43&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-106.18849">106°11'18.57&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, 3 X 2008, G. Forbes, dune edge 50 m N of end Big Pedestal Rd. behind cottonwoods along road, ACCESSION NUMBER WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. WSNM, 4000 ft.
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="32.76013">32°45'36.47&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-106.19117">106°11'28.22&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, interdune with cottonwoods 2 mi SW Admin Bldg, 15 bl[ac]kl[igh]t, 20 IX 2008, G. Forbes, ACCESSION NUMBER WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. WSNM, 4002 ft., Garton Pond, 2 mi. SE Vis. Ctr., 15 w blklight,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="32.775074">32°46'30.27&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-106.14526">106°08'42.96&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, 3 X 2008, G. Forbes, saltbush scrub, ACCESSION NUMBER WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. WSNM, 4008 ft., Storage area W of Big Pedestal Rd. 1 X 2008, G. Forbes, 15 w blacklight,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="32.778137">32°46'41.3&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-106.1808">106°10'50.9&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, interdune scrub, ACCESSION NUMBER WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. WSNM, 4008 ft., Storage area W of Big Pedestal Rd. 20 IX 2008, G. Forbes, 15 w blacklight,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="32.778137">32°46'41.3&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-106.1808">106°10'50.9&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, interdune scrub, ACCESSION NUMBER WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. WSNM, 3999 ft.,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="32.77961">32°46'46.60&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-106.17408">106°10'26.70&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, 05 X 2007, G. Forbes, UV/MV lights, Admin. Bldg. Gypsum soil, Atriplex scrub, ACSN# WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. WSNM 3999 ft.
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="32.77961">32°46'46.60&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-106.17408">106°10'26.70&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, 1 X 2008 G. Forbes 15w blacklight Admin bldg. Gypsum soil, Atriplex scrub Acsn# WHSA-00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. WSNM 4003 ft.
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="32.778137">32°46'41.3&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-106.1808">106°10'50.9&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, 19 IX 2009 G. Forbes Boneyard storage area, Interdune scrub 15w blacklight trap Acsn# WHSA-00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. WSNM 4003 ft.
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="32.778137">32°46'41.3&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-106.1808">106°10'50.9&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, 23 IX 2008 G. Forbes 15w blacklight, Boneyard storage area, Interdune Acsn# WHSA-00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. White Sands Nat[ional] Mon[ument], crest of dunes,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="-106.19033">106°11.42'W</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="32.7615">32°45.69'N</geoCoordinate>
, 4,014', 4 Oct[ober]. 2010, WSNMC, Eric H. Metzler, uv tr[a]p, Accss #: WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. White Sands Nat[ional] Mon[ument], crest of dunes,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="-106.19033">106°11.42'W</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="32.7615">32°45.69'N</geoCoordinate>
, 4,014', 10 Oct[ober]. 2010, WSNMC, Eric H. Metzler, uv tr[a]p, Accss #: WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. White Sands Nat[ional] Mon[ument], edge of dunes,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="-106.188835">106°11.33'W</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="32.761665">32°45.70'N</geoCoordinate>
, 4,001', 4 Oct[ober]. 2010, WSNM3, Eric H. Metzler, uv tr[a]p, Accss #: WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. White Sands Nat[ional] Mon[ument], edge of dunes,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="-106.188835">106°11.33'W</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="32.761665">32°45.70'N</geoCoordinate>
, 4,001', 10 Oct[ober]. 2010, WSNM3, Eric H. Metzler, uv tr[a]p, Accss #: WHSA - 00131. USA: NM: Otero Co. White Sands Nat[ional] Mon[ument], interdune vegetation,
<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="-106.180336">106°10.82'W</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="32.777">32°46.62'N</geoCoordinate>
, 4,008', 4 Oct[ober]. 2010, WSNMD, Eric H. Metzler, uv tr[a]p, Accss #: WHSA - 00131 Paratypes are deposited with NMSU, UNM, MSU, EHM, UFL, USNM, and WHSA.
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1-6.
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adults. 1
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Metzler &amp; Forbes, female holotype 2
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Metzler &amp; Forbes, male paratype 3
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Metzler &amp; Forbes, female paratype 4
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Metzler &amp; Forbes, male paratype 5
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Grote, female 6
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Grote, male.
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Figures 7-12. 7-10
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male genitalia. 7
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Metzler &amp; Forbes, male genitalia paratype 8
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Metzler &amp; Forbes, male aedeagus paratype 9
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Grote, male genitalia 10
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Grote, male genitalia aedeagus; 11-12
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female genitalia 11
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Metzler &amp; Forbes, female genitalia paratype 12
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Grote, female genitalia.
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Figure 13. White dune habitat of type locality of
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.
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Figure 14. Distribution map for
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.
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="139">Etymology.</paragraph>
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The specific epithet of this species, poguei, a noun in the genitive case, recognizes Michael G.
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contributions to the study of
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. Mike Pogue and Metzler share a personal friendship going back to the early 1990s. We are pleased to name this species for Mike Pogue.
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="139">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="139">
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(figs 1-4), a pale tan moth with white markings and darker accents, looks most like pale specimens of
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(Henry Edwards, 1881) (figs 5, 6, 9, 10, 12). The diagnostic features are in the genitalia and the color of the maculation. In the female genitalia: 1) the papilla anales (ovipositor lobes) of
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are curved upward, and the papilla anales of
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are V shaped and not curved; 2) on the 9th abdominal segment the minute spiculation is less dense in
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, and the spicules are wider in
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than in
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; 3) on the 8th segment the setae are long and dense in
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and shorter and more sparse in
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; and 4) the anterior and posterior apophyses are thicker in
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than in
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. In the male genitalia the ampulla of
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is short and broad, and in
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the ampulla is twice as long and one half as wide as
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. At White Sands National Monument, where the two species are sympatric,
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, which flies in August and September, is a gray-brown moth with white markings, whereas
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flies in September and October and is a pale tan moth with white markings.
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="139">Description.</paragraph>
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Adult male (figs 2, 4): Head: front closely scaled, pale tan; vertex scales narrow, strap-like, rough, pale tan. Labial palpus pale tan; erect, scales hair-like and strap-like, closely scaled laterally and mesally, longer scales form longer ragged fringe ventrally and shorter fringe dorsally. Haustellum coiled between labial palpi with three complete loops. Antenna filiform, dorsally pale tan, closely scaled, ventrally naked, brown. Thorax: dorsum pale tan, scales long hair-like or strap-like; underside whitish, scales erect long hair-like. Legs: coxa and femur whitish, closely scaled with long hair-like scales on ventral surface forming a shaggy fringe; fore tibia pale tan, closely scaled, spine-like setae, stout on lateral margins, apex with one inner and one outer long stout spine-like seta; mid and hind tibia, tibial spines, and tarsomeres pale tan, closely scaled. Fore wing: Length 9.0-13.0 mm, mean 11.5 mm, n = 72, pale tan; antemedial line strongly excurved, white, lined with black and/or dark-brown scales basally; postmedial line strongly excurved over cell and recurved to inner margin, white, lined with black and/or dark-brown scales distally, vague basally; subterminal line a white shade; terminal line a series of small black spots; orbicular spot obscure; reniform spot crescent shaped, white, sometimes highlighted with a smudge of darker scales; fringe pale tan; underside whitish, upperside markings vaguely visible; fringe whitish. Hind wing: whitish, outer one-third from tornus to inner margin ranges from fuscous to pale tan, discal spot obscure; fringe whitish; underside white. Abdomen: dorsum closely scaled, pale tan; underside whitish, closely scaled. Genitalia (figs 7, 8): Tegumen expanded laterally, lateral lobes at junctures with valvae, narrowed at dorsum; uncus cylindrical, apex short, acutely pointed, turned downward, length = 0.34
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length of valve; saccus short, V shaped, apex acute; juxta shield shaped, slightly cleft on anterior margin; valve elongate, narrow, width of valve at widest part = 0.12
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length of valve, slightly curved, sacculus well developed, ampulla well developed, short and broad, length = 0.03
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length of valve; cucullus not well differentiated, corona with 16-18 mesally directed curved strong setae. Aedeagus with sclerotized process directed anteriorly at approximate mid point, vesica with 3 coils, flattened subbasal diverticulum present. Adult female (figs 1, 3): similar to male. Forewing length 10.5-13.0 mm, mean 12.1 mm, n = 46. Genitalia (fig. 11): Papilla analis sclerotized, flattened, curved upward, broad at base, apex pointed, not fused; posterior apophysis flattened, widened, extending anteriorly to slightly beyond anterior margin of 8th abdominal segment; anterior apophysis flattened, widened, length similar to posterior apophysis; 8th abdominal segment ringed with elongate setae; ductus bursa lightly sclerotized near posterior end, elongate; corpus bursa ovate with 4 elongate signa; appendix bursae with 3 coils.
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.
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This new species is placed in the genus
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, 1818, based on the appearance of the imago and structure of the male and female genitalia. The spiculation on the 9th abdominal segment is best seen with a compound microscope. A female was selected as holotype because the differences in the papilla analis between
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and
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can be seen in situ without dissection. Individual specimens of
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may be lighter or darker in color. Darker specimens appear to have more complete forewing patterns on upper and undersides. Abdomens tend to grease, and sometimes the grease invades the wings.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="141">Distribution and biology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="141">
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occurs in White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico (figs 13, 14). Adults were collected in black light traps and at black light, or mercury vapor light, and sheet placed within or adjacent to the white gypsum dunes, and interdunal areas. The immature stages are unknown.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="141">Discussion.</paragraph>
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In 2006 the U.S. National Park Service invited Metzler to initiate a long-term study of the
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at White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico. A primary purpose of the study was to compile an inventory of moths in habitats within and immediately adjacent to the white gypsum dunes in the Monument.
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White Sands National Monument preserves 284.9 km2 (110 square miles), or about 40%, of the
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largest snow-white gypsum dune field. The remainder of the 275 square miles dune field is under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army in the White Sands Missile Range. The dune field is located in the northern Chihuahuan Desert in southern New
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Tularosa Basin (
<bibRefCitation author="Schneider-Hector, D" journalOrPublisher="The University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, New Mexico" pageId="8" pageNumber="143" title="White Sands The History of a National Monument." year="1993">Schneider-Hector 1993</bibRefCitation>
). In 1950 Stroud
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twenty species of
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from the Monument. In the period 9 February 2007 through 31 December 2010 Metzler and Forbes identified more than 430 species of
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(unpublished data) from the Monument. A complete description of the study site and some of its unique biological resources is in
<bibRefCitation author="Metzler, EH" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="8" pageNumber="143" pagination="47 - 62" title="The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 1. Two new species of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuinae, Agrotini)." url="doi: 10.3897/zookeys.9.182" volume="9" year="2009">Metzler et al. (2009)</bibRefCitation>
.
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This is the sixth in a series of papers (
<bibRefCitation author="Metzler, EH" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="8" pageNumber="143" pagination="47 - 62" title="The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 1. Two new species of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuinae, Agrotini)." url="doi: 10.3897/zookeys.9.182" volume="9" year="2009">Metzler et al. 2009</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Metzler, EH" journalOrPublisher="Southwestern Entomologist" pageId="8" pageNumber="143" pagination="309 - 311" title="First records, representing major range extensions, of three species of Lepidoptera (Erebidae, Noctuidae, and Lasiocampidae) from New Mexico." url="doi: 10.3958/059.035.0309" volume="35" year="2010">2010</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Metzler, EH" editor="Schmidt, BC" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="8" pageNumber="143" pagination="117 - 123" title="The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 2. Rediscovery and description of Sparkia immacula (Grote, 1883) (Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Hadenini)." url="doi: 10.3897/zookeys.149.1516" volume="149" volumeTitle="Contributions to the systematics of New World macro-moths III." year="2011 a">Metzler and Forbes 2011a</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Metzler, EH" editor="Schmidt, BC" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="8" pageNumber="143" pagination="125 - 133" title="The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 3. A new species of Aleptina Dyar, 1902 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae, Psaphidini)." url="doi: 10.3897/zookeys.149.1517" volume="149" volumeTitle="Contributions to the systematics of New World macro-moths III." year="2011 b">2011b</bibRefCitation>
) pertinent to a detailed study of the
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at White Sands National Monument. This is the fourth species of moth, described as part of this study, and the third species that appears to be a white species (
<bibRefCitation author="Kain, SM" journalOrPublisher="Employee and Volunteer Orientation Handbook, White Sands National Monument" pageId="8" pageNumber="143" title="White Animals at White Sands. pages 48 - 1 through 48 - 18, In: An Introduction to White Sands National Monument and the Tularosa Basin." year="2000">Kain 2000</bibRefCitation>
). The study of
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at White Sands National Monument by Metzler and Forbes is projected to last approximately 10 years.
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