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</date>
, 
<collectorName box="[140,293,871,897]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">H.D. Baggett</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount box="[311,345,871,897]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
)
</materialsCitation>
; 
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2608956172" box="[368,941,871,898]" collectingDate="2007-03-01" collectionCode="T" collectorName="James &amp; Vargo" county="Hernando Co." location="Hernando Co." pageId="1" pageNumber="12" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Alabama" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectingCounty box="[368,535,871,897]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Hernando Co.</collectingCounty>
, 
<date box="[547,690,871,897]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="2007-03-01">
<collectingDate box="[547,690,871,897]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="2007-03-01">1 Mar. 2007</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectorName box="[701,766,871,897]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">James</collectorName>
<collectionCode box="[771,790,871,897]" name="Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">T</collectionCode>
. 
<collectorName box="[801,867,871,897]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Vargo</collectorName>
(1 ♁)
</materialsCitation>
; 
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2608956170" collectingDate="1911-03-22" collectorName="F. W. Friday" county="Hillsborough Co." location="Lutz" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" specimenCount="2" specimenCount-female="2" stateProvince="Florida" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectingCounty pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Hillsborough Co.</collectingCounty>
, 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FF382AE3D2F9FC0F" box="[195,249,906,932]" county="Hillsborough Co." name="Lutz" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Florida">Lutz</location>
, 
<collectingRegion box="[260,344,906,932]" country="United States of America" name="Florida" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Florida</collectingRegion>
, 13 &amp; 
<date box="[421,578,906,932]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1911-03-22">
<collectingDate box="[421,578,906,932]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1911-03-22">22 Mar. 1911</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectorName box="[590,725,906,932]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">F. W. Friday</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount box="[740,777,906,932]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">2 ♀</specimenCount>
)
</materialsCitation>
; 
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2608956162" collectingDate="1991-02-07" collectorName="John S. Kutis" county="Marion Co." location="Bay Lake" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Florida" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectingCounty box="[800,936,906,932]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Marion Co.</collectingCounty>
, 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FC482AE3D61DFC0F" box="[947,1053,906,932]" county="Marion Co." name="Bay Lake" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Florida">Bay Lake</location>
, 
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="8.04672" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" unit="mi" value="0.5">0.5 mi.</quantity>
west of CR315, 
<date box="[373,513,941,968]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1991-02-07">
<collectingDate box="[373,513,941,968]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1991-02-07">7 Feb. 1991</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectorName box="[526,678,941,967]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">John S. Kutis</collectorName>
(1 ♁)
</materialsCitation>
; Pasco Co., Clay Sink, Withlacoochee St. Forest, 
<date box="[360,499,976,1002]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1991-02-06">6 Feb. 1991</date>
, John S. Kutis (
<specimenCount box="[683,719,976,1003]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
); 
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2608956168" collectingDate="2004-03-03" collectionCode="R" collectorName="Jeffrey &amp; Slotten" county="Putnam Co." location="Putnam Hall Post Office" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Florida" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectingCounty box="[743,885,976,1003]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Putnam Co.</collectingCounty>
, 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FC792AB8D2D5FBA6" county="Putnam Co." name="Putnam Hall Post Office" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Florida">Putnam Hall Post Office</location>
, 
<date box="[224,369,1012,1038]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="2004-03-03">
<collectingDate box="[224,369,1012,1038]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="2004-03-03">3 Mar. 2004</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectorName box="[381,452,1011,1037]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Jeffrey</collectorName>
<collectionCode box="[459,481,1012,1038]" country="Chile" name="Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">R</collectionCode>
. 
<collectorName box="[493,574,1011,1037]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Slotten</collectorName>
(1 ♁)
</materialsCitation>
; 
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2608956165" collectingDate="1991-02-05" collectingDateMax="1991-02-09" collectingDateMin="1991-02-05" collectionCode="R" collectorName="John &amp; Kutis &amp; Richard &amp; Gillmore" county="Sumpter Co." location="Withlacoochee St. Forest" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" specimenCount="3" specimenCount-female="3" stateProvince="Florida" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectingCounty box="[654,802,1012,1038]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Sumpter Co.</collectingCounty>
, 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FCD52A9AD64CFBA5" box="[814,1100,1011,1038]" county="Sumpter Co." name="Withlacoochee St. Forest" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Withlacoochee St. Forest</location>
, 
<date box="[140,284,1046,1073]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1991-02-05">
<collectingDate box="[140,284,1046,1073]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1991-02-05">5 Feb. 1991</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectorName box="[299,353,1047,1073]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">John</collectorName>
S. 
<collectorName box="[395,455,1047,1073]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Kutis</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount box="[477,515,1047,1073]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
), same location and collector, 
<date box="[875,1017,1047,1073]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1991-02-09">
<collectingDate box="[875,1017,1047,1073]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1991-02-09">9 Feb. 1991</collectingDate>
</date>
(
<specimenCount box="[1039,1084,1047,1073]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
), same location, 
<date box="[312,453,1082,1108]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1991-02-09">
<collectingDate box="[312,453,1082,1108]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1991-02-09">9 Feb. 1991</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectorName box="[467,556,1082,1108]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Richard</collectorName>
M. 
<collectorName box="[608,710,1082,1108]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Gillmore</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount box="[730,766,1082,1108]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
)
</materialsCitation>
; 
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2608956157" collectingDate="1963-02-11" collectingDateMax="2004-03-04" collectingDateMin="1963-02-11" collectionCode="V" collectorName="Fuller &amp; James K. Adams &amp; Battle Creek Cypress Swamp, D &amp; A. Brown &amp; H. Godwin Stevensen" county="Volusia Co." location="Long Co." municipality="Cassadaga" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" specimenCount="140" specimenCount-female="140" stateProvince="Georgia" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectingCounty box="[791,926,1082,1108]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Volusia Co.</collectingCounty>
, 
<collectingMunicipality box="[940,1058,1082,1108]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Cassadaga</collectingMunicipality>
, 
<date pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1963-02-11">
<collectingDate pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1963-02-11">11 Feb. 1963</collectingDate>
</date>
, S. 
<collectionCode box="[294,317,1117,1143]" country="Canada" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:13946" name="Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="Museum">V</collectionCode>
. 
<collectorName box="[331,397,1117,1143]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Fuller</collectorName>
(1 ♁), 
<date box="[487,647,1117,1144]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1964-02-15">
<collectingDate box="[487,647,1117,1144]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1964-02-15">15 Feb. 1964</collectingDate>
</date>
, same location and collector (1 ♁), 
<date pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1966-02-23">
<collectingDate pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1966-02-23">23 Feb. 1966</collectingDate>
</date>
, same location and collector (1 ♁, 
<specimenCount box="[651,688,1152,1179]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
). 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[723,818,1152,1178]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">
<collectingRegion box="[723,818,1152,1178]" country="United States of America" name="Georgia" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Georgia</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
: 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FCBA2DE8D1B0FB31" box="[833,944,1152,1179]" county="Volusia Co." municipality="Cassadaga" name="Long Co." pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Georgia">Long Co.</location>
, 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FC462DE9D3C4FB15" county="Volusia Co." municipality="Cassadaga" name="Griffin Ridge Wildlife Management Area" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Georgia">Griffin Ridge Wildlife Management Area</location>
, 
<locationDeviation box="[464,720,1187,1214]" location="Altamaha River" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">NE of Altamaha River</locationDeviation>
, 
<locationDeviation box="[732,990,1187,1214]" location="Ludowici" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">
<quantity box="[732,792,1187,1214]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.828032" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" unit="mi" value="3.0">3 mi.</quantity>
SW of Ludowici
</locationDeviation>
, 
<date pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="2004-03-03" valueMax="2004-03-04" valueMin="2004-03-03">
<collectingDate pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="2004-03-03" valueMax="2004-03-04" valueMin="2004-03-03">3–4 Mar. 2004</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectorName box="[214,400,1223,1249]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">James K. Adams</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount box="[420,456,1223,1249]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
). 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[488,606,1222,1248]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">
<collectingRegion box="[488,606,1222,1248]" country="United States of America" name="Louisiana" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Louisiana</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
: same locality and collector as for 
<typeStatus box="[1001,1103,1223,1249]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">holotype</typeStatus>
, 
<date box="[140,402,1258,1284]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1982-11-21" valueMax="1982-03-29" valueMin="1982-11-21">
<collectingDate box="[140,402,1258,1284]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1982-11-21" valueMax="1982-03-29" valueMin="1982-11-21">21 Nov.–29 Mar. 1982</collectingDate>
</date>
–2009 (128 ♁, 
<specimenCount box="[582,649,1258,1284]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">138 ♀</specimenCount>
). 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[685,802,1258,1284]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">
<collectingRegion box="[685,802,1258,1284]" country="United States of America" name="Maryland" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Maryland</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
: 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FCC92D83D1B9FAAF" box="[818,953,1258,1284]" county="Volusia Co." municipality="Cassadaga" name="Calvert Co." pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Georgia">Calvert Co.</location>
, 
<collectorName pageId="1" pageNumber="12">
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FC3D2D83D653FAAF" box="[966,1107,1258,1284]" county="Volusia Co." municipality="Cassadaga" name="Battle Creek" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Georgia">Battle Creek</location>
Cypress Swamp, D
</collectorName>
. Williams/ 
<collectorName box="[485,596,1293,1320]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">A. Brown</collectorName>
, 
<date box="[608,763,1293,1319]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1990-02-14">
<collectingDate box="[608,763,1293,1319]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1990-02-14">14 Feb. 1990</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectorName box="[777,1028,1293,1320]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">H. Godwin Stevensen</collectorName>
(2 ♁)
</materialsCitation>
; 
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2608956167" box="[140,920,1328,1356]" collectingDate="1989-10-22" collectingDateMax="2004-03-04" collectingDateMin="1963-02-11" collectionCode="V" collectorName="Dwight F. Williams" county="Volusia Co." location="Long Co." municipality="Cassadaga" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Georgia" typeStatus="paratype">
same locality and collector, 
<collectorName box="[455,682,1328,1355]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Dwight F. Williams</collectorName>
, 
<date box="[695,851,1328,1354]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1989-10-22">
<collectingDate box="[695,851,1328,1354]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1989-10-22">22 Oct. 1989</collectingDate>
</date>
(1 ♁)
</materialsCitation>
; 
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2608956156" collectingDate="17 Oct. 1996 and 18 Oct. 1998" collectorName="J. Glaser" county="Worcester Co." location="Pokomoke State Forest" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" specimenCount="3" specimenCount-female="3" stateProvince="Georgia" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectingCounty box="[934,1099,1328,1355]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Worcester Co.</collectingCounty>
, 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FF772C3AD398FAC5" box="[140,408,1363,1390]" county="Worcester Co." name="Pokomoke State Forest" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Georgia">Pokomoke State Forest</location>
, 
<collectingDate box="[422,807,1363,1390]" isEnumeration="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">
<date box="[422,582,1363,1390]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1996-10-17">17 Oct. 1996</date>
and 
<date box="[645,807,1364,1390]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1998-10-18">18 Oct. 1998</date>
</collectingDate>
, 
<collectorName box="[823,922,1363,1390]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">J. Glaser</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount box="[942,982,1364,1390]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">3 ♀</specimenCount>
)
</materialsCitation>
; 
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2608956154" collectingDate="1973-11-22" collectingDateMax="1998-10-18" collectingDateMin="1973-11-22" collectorName="J. Glaser &amp; Richard L. Brown &amp; Mill Creek Road &amp; J. Bolling Sullivan" county="Worcester Co." latitude="34.59833" location="Sturges Creek" longLatPrecision="19" longitude="-88.17861" municipality="Sturges Creek Cypress Swamp" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" specimenCount="2" specimenCount-female="2" stateProvince="Mississippi" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectingCounty pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Worcester Co.</collectingCounty>
, 
<collectingMunicipality box="[238,588,1399,1425]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FF152C1ED38CFA3A" box="[238,396,1399,1425]" county="Worcester Co." latitude="34.59833" longLatPrecision="19" longitude="-88.17861" municipality="Sturges Creek Cypress Swamp" name="Sturges Creek" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Mississippi">Sturges Creek</location>
Cypress Swamp
</collectingMunicipality>
, 
<date box="[602,762,1399,1425]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1998-10-18">
<collectingDate box="[602,762,1399,1425]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1998-10-18">18 Oct. 1998</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectorName box="[777,875,1399,1425]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">J. Glaser</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount box="[896,933,1399,1425]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
). 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[966,1100,1398,1424]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">
<collectingRegion box="[966,1100,1398,1424]" country="United States of America" name="Mississippi" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Mississippi</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
: 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FF772CF3D349FA1F" box="[140,329,1434,1460]" county="Worcester Co." latitude="34.59833" longLatPrecision="19" longitude="-88.17861" municipality="Sturges Creek Cypress Swamp" name="Tishomingo Co." pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Mississippi">Tishomingo Co.</location>
, 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FEAF2CF3D05AFA1F" box="[340,602,1434,1460]" county="Worcester Co." latitude="34.59833" longLatPrecision="19" longitude="-88.17861" municipality="Sturges Creek Cypress Swamp" name="Tishomingo State Park" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Mississippi">Tishomingo State Park</location>
, 
<geoCoordinate box="[613,775,1434,1461]" degrees="34" direction="north" minutes="35" orientation="latitude" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" precision="15" seconds="54" value="34.59833">34° 35’ 54” N</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate box="[788,953,1434,1460]" degrees="88" direction="west" minutes="10" orientation="longitude" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" precision="15" seconds="43" value="-88.17861">88° 10’ 43” W</geoCoordinate>
, 
<date box="[964,1102,1434,1460]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1998-04-03">
<collectingDate box="[964,1102,1434,1460]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1998-04-03">3 Apr. 1998</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectorName box="[140,349,1469,1496]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Richard L. Brown</collectorName>
(1 ♁). 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[440,627,1469,1495]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">
<collectingRegion box="[440,627,1469,1495]" country="United States of America" name="North Carolina" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">North Carolina</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
: 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FD7F2CD4D117FA7C" box="[644,791,1469,1495]" county="Worcester Co." latitude="34.59833" longLatPrecision="19" longitude="-88.17861" municipality="Sturges Creek Cypress Swamp" name="Carteret Co." pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Mississippi">Carteret Co.</location>
, 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FCDD2CD4D1EAFA73" box="[806,1002,1469,1496]" county="Worcester Co." latitude="34.59833" longLatPrecision="19" longitude="-88.17861" municipality="Sturges Creek Cypress Swamp" name="Junction of Hwy" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Mississippi">Junction of Hwy</location>
101 and 
<collectorName box="[140,337,1504,1530]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FF772C89D308FA51" box="[140,264,1504,1530]" county="Worcester Co." latitude="34.59833" longLatPrecision="19" longitude="-88.17861" municipality="Sturges Creek Cypress Swamp" name="Mill Creek" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Mississippi">Mill Creek</location>
Road
</collectorName>
, 
<date box="[350,512,1504,1531]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1973-11-22">
<collectingDate box="[350,512,1504,1531]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1973-11-22">22 Nov. 1973</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectorName box="[526,734,1504,1531]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">J. Bolling Sullivan</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount box="[755,792,1504,1531]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
)
</materialsCitation>
; 
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2608956171" collectingDate="1990-03-31" collectingDateMax="1991-03-20" collectingDateMin="1990-03-31" collectorName="J. Bolling Sullivan" county="Craven Co." location="North Harlow" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" specimenCount="5" specimenCount-female="5" stateProvince="Mississippi" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectingCounty box="[818,952,1504,1530]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Craven Co.</collectingCounty>
, 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FC3D2C89D2B6F9B6" county="Craven Co." name="North Harlow" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Mississippi">North Harlow</location>
, 25 and 
<date box="[280,587,1539,1566]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1990-03-31" valueMax="1990-11-12" valueMin="1990-03-31">
<collectingDate box="[280,587,1539,1566]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1990-03-31" valueMax="1990-11-12" valueMin="1990-03-31">31 Mar. and 12 Nov. 1990</collectingDate>
</date>
, 13 and 
<date box="[686,987,1539,1566]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1991-02-18" valueMax="1991-03-20" valueMin="1991-02-18">
<collectingDate box="[686,987,1539,1566]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1991-02-18" valueMax="1991-03-20" valueMin="1991-02-18">18 Feb. and 20 Mar. 1991</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectorName pageId="1" pageNumber="12">J. Bolling Sullivan</collectorName>
(3 ♁, 
<specimenCount box="[305,343,1574,1601]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">5 ♀</specimenCount>
)
</materialsCitation>
; 
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2608956166" box="[368,1092,1575,1601]" collectingDate="3 Apr. 1996 and 8 Mar. 2000" county="Jones Co." location="Haywood Landing" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Mississippi" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectingCounty box="[368,480,1575,1601]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Jones Co.</collectingCounty>
, 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FE152F4ED0C7F9EA" box="[494,711,1575,1601]" county="Jones Co." name="Haywood Landing" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Mississippi">Haywood Landing</location>
, 
<collectingDate box="[723,1067,1575,1601]" isEnumeration="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">
<date box="[723,861,1575,1601]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1996-04-03">3 Apr. 1996</date>
and 
<date box="[920,1067,1575,1601]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="2000-03-08">8 Mar. 2000</date>
</collectingDate>
, J
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="1.[140,1108,483,1672]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">
Bolling Sullivan (1 ♁, 
<specimenCount box="[397,435,1610,1636]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
); 
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2608956160" collectingDate="1996-04-05" collectionCode="CNC" collectorName="Shelter Gamelands &amp; J. Bolling Sullivan" county="Pender Co." location="Pender Co." pageId="1" pageNumber="12" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectingCounty box="[460,590,1610,1636]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Pender Co.</collectingCounty>
, 
<collectorName box="[604,821,1610,1636]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Shelter Gamelands</collectorName>
, 
<date box="[834,975,1610,1637]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1996-04-05">
<collectingDate box="[834,975,1610,1637]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" value="1996-04-05">5 Apr. 1996</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectorName pageId="1" pageNumber="12">J. Bolling Sullivan</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount box="[250,286,1645,1672]" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
). 
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deposited in 
<collectionCode box="[573,640,1645,1671]" country="Canada" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/y2kv-9w3k" name="Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">CNC</collectionCode>
</materialsCitation>
; 
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2608956158" box="[653,1096,1645,1671]" location="Collection of Arthropods" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Florida" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectingRegion box="[653,797,1645,1671]" country="United States of America" name="Florida" pageId="1" pageNumber="12">Florida State</collectingRegion>
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03CD87C3FFC9FFEFFF77283FD0B2FC2A:8EBB600EFFC9FFE8FCDE2F04D648F92C" box="[805,1096,1645,1671]" name="Collection of Arthropods" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" stateProvince="Florida">Collection of Arthropods</location>
</materialsCitation>
,
</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="2.[140,1108,1494,1676]" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[140,269,1494,1516]" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Figures 1-7.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hubner" authorityYear="1821" box="[276,377,1494,1515]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[276,377,1494,1515]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Lithophane</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
spp. 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[427,440,1494,1516]" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">1</emphasis>
, 
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<emphasis box="[452,465,1495,1516]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">L</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis box="[478,524,1494,1515]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">abita</emphasis>
Brou &amp; Lafontaine
</taxonomicName>
, male, 
<typeStatus box="[776,860,1494,1516]" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">holotype</typeStatus>
, 
<collectingCountry box="[870,917,1495,1516]" name="United States of America" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">USA</collectingCountry>
, 
<collectingRegion box="[927,1019,1494,1516]" country="United States of America" name="Louisiana" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Louisiana</collectingRegion>
, St. Tammany Parish, 
<quantity box="[268,353,1526,1548]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.7592448" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" unit="mi" value="4.2">4.2 miles</quantity>
(
<quantity box="[368,438,1526,1548]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.8" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" unit="km" value="6.8">6.8 km</quantity>
) NE of Abita Springs. 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[656,669,1526,1548]" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">2</emphasis>
, 
<taxonomicName authority="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityName="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityYear="2009" box="[682,944,1526,1548]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abita">
<emphasis box="[682,695,1527,1548]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">L</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis box="[709,755,1526,1547]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">abita</emphasis>
Brou &amp; Lafontaine
</taxonomicName>
, female, 
<typeStatus box="[1029,1104,1526,1548]" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">allotype</typeStatus>
, 
<collectingCountry box="[140,187,1559,1580]" name="United States of America" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">USA</collectingCountry>
, 
<collectingRegion box="[197,289,1558,1580]" country="United States of America" name="Louisiana" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Louisiana</collectingRegion>
, St. Tammany Parish, 
<quantity box="[499,584,1558,1580]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.7592448" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" unit="mi" value="4.2">4.2 miles</quantity>
(
<quantity box="[598,667,1558,1580]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.8" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" unit="km" value="6.8">6.8 km</quantity>
) NE of Abita Springs. 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[884,897,1558,1580]" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">3</emphasis>
, 
<taxonomicName authority="(Benjamin)" baseAuthorityName="Benjamin" baseAuthorityYear="1936" box="[910,1104,1558,1580]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="adipel">
<emphasis box="[910,923,1559,1580]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">L</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis box="[936,990,1558,1579]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">adipel</emphasis>
(Benjamin)
</taxonomicName>
, 
<collectingCountry box="[140,187,1591,1612]" name="United States of America" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">USA</collectingCountry>
, 
<collectingRegion box="[198,304,1591,1612]" country="United States of America" name="New Jersey" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">New Jersey</collectingRegion>
, Lakehurst. 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[420,433,1590,1612]" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">4</emphasis>
, 
<taxonomicName authority="Grote" authorityName="Grote" authorityYear="1874" box="[448,608,1590,1612]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thaxteri">
<emphasis box="[448,461,1591,1612]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">L</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis box="[475,544,1590,1611]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">thaxteri</emphasis>
Grote
</taxonomicName>
, male, 
<collectingCountry box="[677,750,1590,1612]" name="Canada" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Canada</collectingCountry>
, 
<collectingRegion box="[762,914,1590,1612]" country="Canada" name="New Brunswick" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">New Brunswick</collectingRegion>
, Edmundston. 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1061,1074,1590,1612]" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">5</emphasis>
, 
<taxonomicName authority="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityName="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityYear="2009" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abita">
<emphasis box="[1088,1101,1591,1612]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">L</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis box="[140,186,1622,1643]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">abita</emphasis>
Brou &amp; Lafontaine
</taxonomicName>
, male genital capsule. 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[578,591,1622,1644]" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">6</emphasis>
. 
<taxonomicName authority="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityName="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityYear="2009" box="[603,860,1622,1644]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abita">
<emphasis box="[603,616,1623,1644]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">L</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis box="[628,674,1622,1643]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">abita</emphasis>
Brou &amp; Lafontaine
</taxonomicName>
, male aedeagus with vesica everted. 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[218,231,1654,1676]" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">7</emphasis>
, 
<taxonomicName authority="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityName="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityYear="2009" box="[244,500,1654,1676]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abita">
<emphasis box="[244,257,1655,1676]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">L</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis box="[269,315,1654,1675]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="13">abita</emphasis>
Brou &amp; Lafontaine
</taxonomicName>
, female genitalia.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph blockId="3.[140,1108,167,1672]" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">
Gainesville; 
<collectingRegion box="[280,453,167,193]" country="United States of America" name="Louisiana" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Louisiana State</collectingRegion>
Arthropod Museum, Baton Rouge; 
<collectingRegion box="[872,996,167,193]" country="United States of America" name="Mississippi" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Mississippi</collectingRegion>
Entomological Museum; Cornell University Collection, Ithaca, 
<collectingRegion box="[772,889,202,228]" country="United States of America" name="New York" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">New York</collectingRegion>
; National Museum of Natural History [
<collectionCode box="[369,463,236,263]" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" name="Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" type="Museum">USNM</collectionCode>
], 
<collectingRegion box="[482,622,237,263]" country="United States of America" name="Washington" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Washington</collectingRegion>
, DC; and the private collections of: James K. Adams, Robert J. Borth, Richard M. Gillmore, Edward C. Knudson, Hugo L. Kons Jr., Jeffrey 
<collectionCode box="[258,280,308,334]" country="Chile" name="Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">R</collectionCode>
. Slotten, J. Bolling Sullivan, and the senior author. Primary types are designated with the words 
<typeStatus box="[402,509,343,369]" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Holotype</typeStatus>
and 
<typeStatus box="[564,659,343,369]" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Allotype</typeStatus>
in black text on red labels; 
<typeStatus box="[962,1068,343,369]" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">paratypes</typeStatus>
are designated with the word 
<typeStatus box="[433,530,378,404]" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Paratype</typeStatus>
in black text on yellow labels.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="14" type="etymology">
<paragraph blockId="3.[140,1108,167,1672]" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,320,413,439]" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">
<emphasis box="[185,315,413,439]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" reason="1">Etymology</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
The epithet is derived from the 
<typeStatus box="[709,757,414,440]" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">type</typeStatus>
locality near which all of the known 
<collectingRegion box="[225,334,448,474]" country="United States of America" name="Louisiana" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Louisiana</collectingRegion>
specimens have been taken, the town of Abita Springs, St. Tammany Parish, 
<collectingRegion box="[223,335,483,509]" country="United States of America" name="Louisiana" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Louisiana</collectingRegion>
, 
<collectingCountry box="[347,405,484,510]" name="United States of America" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">USA</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="14" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph blockId="3.[140,1108,167,1672]" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,312,518,544]" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">
<emphasis box="[185,307,518,544]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" reason="1">Diagnosis</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityYear="2009" box="[320,508,519,545]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abita">
<emphasis box="[320,508,519,545]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Lithophane abita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a medium-sized species of 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hubner" authorityYear="1821" box="[848,971,519,545]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[848,971,519,545]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Lithophane</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with a gray forewing and pinkish-fuscous hindwing. Th e forewing maculation tends to be pale and muted, except for a contrasting black line in the fold connecting the deeply zigzagged antemedial and postmedial lines. In these superficial characters, it has the appearance of some species in the 
<taxonomicName authority="Grote" authorityName="Grote" authorityYear="1878" box="[390,657,659,686]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lepida">
<emphasis box="[390,585,659,685]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Lithophane lepida</emphasis>
Grote
</taxonomicName>
species-group of which only 
<taxonomicName authority="(Benjamin)" baseAuthorityName="Benjamin" baseAuthorityYear="1936" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="adipel">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Lithophane adipel</emphasis>
(Benjamin)
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation box="[356,422,695,721]" captionStart="Figures 1-7" captionStartId="2.[140,222,1494,1516]" captionTargetBox="[140,1107,273,1394]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[140,1108,248,1406]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figures 1-7. Lithophane spp. 1, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male, holotype, USA, Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) NE of Abita Springs. 2, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, female, allotype, USA, Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) NE of Abita Springs. 3, L. adipel (Benjamin), USA, New Jersey, Lakehurst. 4, L. thaxteri Grote, male, Canada, New Brunswick, Edmundston. 5, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male genital capsule. 6. L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male aedeagus with vesica everted. 7, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, female genitalia." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3810517" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3810517/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
) occurs in southeastern 
<collectingCountry box="[694,849,695,721]" name="United States of America" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">United States</collectingCountry>
. It is even more similar to 
<taxonomicName authority="Grote" authorityName="Grote" authorityYear="1874" box="[170,457,730,756]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thaxteri">
<emphasis box="[170,384,730,756]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Lithophane thaxteri</emphasis>
Grote
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation box="[472,540,730,756]" captionStart="Figures 1-7" captionStartId="2.[140,222,1494,1516]" captionTargetBox="[140,1107,273,1394]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[140,1108,248,1406]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figures 1-7. Lithophane spp. 1, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male, holotype, USA, Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) NE of Abita Springs. 2, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, female, allotype, USA, Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) NE of Abita Springs. 3, L. adipel (Benjamin), USA, New Jersey, Lakehurst. 4, L. thaxteri Grote, male, Canada, New Brunswick, Edmundston. 5, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male genital capsule. 6. L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male aedeagus with vesica everted. 7, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, female genitalia." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3810517" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3810517/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
), which like 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityYear="2009" box="[685,771,730,756]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abita">
<emphasis box="[685,701,731,756]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">L</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis box="[715,771,730,756]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">abita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, has a brown flush to the area around the reniform spot and a black line defining the lower edge of the reniform spot, but 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Grote" authorityYear="1874" box="[186,301,800,827]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thaxteri">
<emphasis box="[186,202,801,826]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">L</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis box="[217,301,800,826]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">thaxteri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
occurs in the boreal zone of 
<collectingCountry box="[629,715,800,826]" name="Canada" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Canada</collectingCountry>
and in eastern 
<collectingCountry box="[889,1041,800,826]" name="United States of America" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">United States</collectingCountry>
as far south as 
<collectingRegion box="[239,366,836,862]" country="United States of America" name="New Jersey" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">New Jersey</collectingRegion>
, but probably will not be found within the range of 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityYear="2009" box="[962,1049,835,862]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abita">
<emphasis box="[962,978,836,861]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">L</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis box="[993,1049,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">abita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The male genitalia of 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityYear="2009" box="[334,421,871,897]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abita">
<emphasis box="[334,350,871,896]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">L</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis box="[365,421,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">abita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, however, are unique within the genus and the characteristic shape of the apices of the valves can be seen by brushing away some scales from the end of the abdomen. Th e digitus of the right valve projects beyond the apex of the valve as a long, curved, saber-like spine that is almost ⅔ as long as the valve (
<figureCitation box="[942,1010,976,1003]" captionStart="Figures 1-7" captionStartId="2.[140,222,1494,1516]" captionTargetBox="[140,1107,273,1394]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[140,1108,248,1406]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figures 1-7. Lithophane spp. 1, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male, holotype, USA, Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) NE of Abita Springs. 2, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, female, allotype, USA, Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) NE of Abita Springs. 3, L. adipel (Benjamin), USA, New Jersey, Lakehurst. 4, L. thaxteri Grote, male, Canada, New Brunswick, Edmundston. 5, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male genital capsule. 6. L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male aedeagus with vesica everted. 7, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, female genitalia." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3810517" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3810517/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
); that of the left valve is short, stout, and apically blunt with the part of the digitus extending beyond the valve about ¼ of the length of that of the right valve. Th e spine-like process at the apex of the right valve can often be seen with the naked eye protruding from the end of the abdomen. The association of 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityYear="2009" box="[586,671,1117,1143]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abita">
<emphasis box="[586,671,1117,1143]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">L. abita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with bald cypress (
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<emphasis box="[885,1107,1117,1143]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Taxodium distichum</emphasis>
Rich.
</taxonomicName>
), the probable larval host, is also unique within 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hubner" authorityYear="1821" box="[747,870,1152,1178]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[747,870,1152,1178]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Lithophane</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="5" lastPageNumber="16" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" type="description">
<paragraph blockId="3.[140,1108,167,1672]" lastBlockId="4.[140,1108,167,1672]" lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="15" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,335,1187,1213]" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">
<emphasis box="[185,330,1187,1213]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" reason="1">Description</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Males and females similar in all external characters except size. 
<emphasis box="[1041,1100,1187,1213]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Head</emphasis>
: color usually light to medium slate gray, occasional specimens dark gray; pronounced frontal tuft; a wide lateral black band of scales on center of head between eyes defined above and below by a bright white line of scales, upper line at a position above eye and below antenna: antenna filiform, simple, slender, and acuminate, similar gray in color, more so dorsally and near base of shaft; labial palp with black scales laterally and gray scales ventrally and dorsally; labial palp peppered with either black or gray scales with white tips; ventral surface of palp with long scales forming a pointed tuft projecting anteroventrally slightly beyond apex of palp. 
<emphasis box="[623,699,1469,1495]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Thorax</emphasis>
: dorsal color similar to that of head and forewing ground color except for wide transverse dark brown band on prothoracic collar with upper margin defined by distinct black line with upper scales forming a bright white line; anterior part of thorax with dorsal partially divided tuft of scales; ventral color of thorax light pinkish brown, gray, or fuscous, with area between legs and wings entirely black; outer side of foreleg coxa a mixture of black and white scales (appearing gray to naked eye), with a short group of longitudinal black scales emanating from base; scales on the inner side of coxa brownish gray with a fine longitudinal line of black scales; femur covered with black and white scales (appearing gray to naked eye) with black scales more concentrated near trochanter; scales on coxa of midleg a mixture of gray and white, except near trochanter, where scales form a band of black followed by a band of white; similar black and white bands continue along remainder of midleg femur, tibia, and tarsus; hindleg similar in color and appearance to midleg. 
<emphasis box="[140,242,413,439]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="15">Abdomen</emphasis>
: dorsal color fuscous with pink suffusion throughout; ventral color same as dorsal. 
<emphasis box="[224,324,449,474]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="15">Forewing</emphasis>
: dorsal ground color matching that on dorsum of head and thorax; maculation varying from strongly marked to barely distinguishable; weakly marked specimens appear to have been on the wing longer, but do not necessarily appear exceptionally worn; most specimens with very faint, sometimes barely distinguishable, bifurcating black basal dash; antemedial (am) line mostly faint, deeply zigzagged, defined in paler gray and partly bordered on outer edge by black, except in area of fold where am line sharply defined in black forming an outward projecting “V” that extends into prominent, black dash in fold parallel to lower margin of wing and extends to postmedial (pm) line; pm line deeply serrated but faint, partly defined by pale gray and dark gray scales; subterminal line also faintly defined in pale and dark gray but usually bordered in subterminal area by series of diffuse, dark-gray, wedge-shaped spots; terminal area concolorous with medial area, or very slightly darker with wing veins partly defined in black; terminal line incomplete, dark gray, usually stronger between veins; orbicular spot a rounded or slightly oblong paler gray shade defined mainly by the darker gray shading surrounding it; a prominent crescentic black line extends from outer lower edge of orbicular spot and around lower margin of reniform spot; reniform spot barely distinguishable as a paler gray outline above black line on lower margin of spot; forewing with fuscous-brown scales in area between reniform and orbicular spots, and in lower part of reniform. Ventral color of forewing pale luteous brown on basal half of wing, pinkish brown on distal half and forming a darker marginal shade; reniform spot diffuse, dark brown, usually crescent-shaped; terminal line defined by faint black scales accentuated with conspicuous black scales forming v-shaped wedges between veins; fringe gray. Wing length: male: 
<quantity box="[672,777,1223,1249]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.67" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" unit="mm" value="16.7">16.7 mm</quantity>
(15.7–18.0, n = 25); female: 
<quantity box="[140,245,1258,1284]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.71" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" unit="mm" value="17.1">17.1 mm</quantity>
(15.6–18.4, n = 25). 
<emphasis box="[495,607,1258,1284]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="15">Hindwing</emphasis>
: dorsal color fuscous with pinkish suffusion throughout; fringe contrastingly lighter slate gray, especially at base of fringe; terminal line usually expressed as diffuse darker brown lines most often only between veins on outer margin of wing; discal spot crescentic, darker than ground color but barely discernable. Ventral color entirely light pink with numerous tiny brown scales sprinkled over entire surface; terminal line generally similar to that on dorsal surface; discal spot very large, brownish-black spot in center of wing; postmedial line a faint but discernable dark, broad line.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[185,344,1539,1565]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="15">Male genitalia</emphasis>
(n = 6): genital capsule (
<figureCitation box="[633,701,1539,1566]" captionStart="Figures 1-7" captionStartId="2.[140,222,1494,1516]" captionTargetBox="[140,1107,273,1394]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[140,1108,248,1406]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figures 1-7. Lithophane spp. 1, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male, holotype, USA, Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) NE of Abita Springs. 2, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, female, allotype, USA, Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) NE of Abita Springs. 3, L. adipel (Benjamin), USA, New Jersey, Lakehurst. 4, L. thaxteri Grote, male, Canada, New Brunswick, Edmundston. 5, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male genital capsule. 6. L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male aedeagus with vesica everted. 7, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, female genitalia." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3810517" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3810517/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="15">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
) with supporting ring modified, so enlarged vinculum and pleural sclerite occupy basal ⅔ of ring, presumably to support greatly enlarged base of valve; tegumen proportionally reduced to dorsal ⅓ of ring; uncus short, cylindrical, expanded at apex; juxta a very large diamond-shaped plate oc- cupying most of area inside genital ring; valves short and triangular, very large at base and tapering to narrow apex; valves asymmetrical; right sacculus large, twice as long as cucullus; cucullus reduced with sclerotized finger-like process at base of cucullus on dorsal margin of valve; apical part of cucullus reduced to rounded, almost membranous flap without any trace of a corona; digitus massive, arising from costal margin of valve, covering basal b of cucullus, then bending dorsally to project posterodorsally from end of valve as a long, tapered, saber-like spine; clasper reduced to Y-shaped sclerite at apex of valve with ampulla projecting beyond costal margin of valve as lightly sclerotized, finger-like process; left valve similar to right valve, except sacculus not as enlarged dorsally at base, costal process at base of cucullus triangular, part of left digitus projecting from valve ¼ as long as saber-like extension of right digitus, and apex of left digitus blunt and rounded. Aedeagus (
<figureCitation box="[570,635,554,581]" captionStart="Figures 1-7" captionStartId="2.[140,222,1494,1516]" captionTargetBox="[140,1107,273,1394]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[140,1108,248,1406]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figures 1-7. Lithophane spp. 1, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male, holotype, USA, Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) NE of Abita Springs. 2, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, female, allotype, USA, Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) NE of Abita Springs. 3, L. adipel (Benjamin), USA, New Jersey, Lakehurst. 4, L. thaxteri Grote, male, Canada, New Brunswick, Edmundston. 5, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male genital capsule. 6. L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male aedeagus with vesica everted. 7, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, female genitalia." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3810517" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3810517/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
) cylindrical, heavily sclerotized, about 6 × as long as wide; vesica about 1½ × as long as aedeagus; basal 1/6 as wide as aedeagus; apical part inflated and sac-like, curving in an arc 180° to project anteriorly; vesica with two short diverticula, one short preapical on dorsal surface and one on ventral surface at apex; apex of vesica with two subapical patches of spine-like cornuti, one dorsal and one ventral. 
<emphasis box="[278,455,730,756]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Female genitalia</emphasis>
(n = 5) (
<figureCitation box="[552,619,730,756]" captionStart="Figures 1-7" captionStartId="2.[140,222,1494,1516]" captionTargetBox="[140,1107,273,1394]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[140,1108,248,1406]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figures 1-7. Lithophane spp. 1, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male, holotype, USA, Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) NE of Abita Springs. 2, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, female, allotype, USA, Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) NE of Abita Springs. 3, L. adipel (Benjamin), USA, New Jersey, Lakehurst. 4, L. thaxteri Grote, male, Canada, New Brunswick, Edmundston. 5, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male genital capsule. 6. L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, male aedeagus with vesica everted. 7, L. abita Brou &amp; Lafontaine, female genitalia." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3810517" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3810517/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Fig. 7</figureCitation>
): corpus bursae with prominent postmedial constriction giving it a figure 8-shape; without signa; posterior part of corpus bursae with short, lightly sclerotized, appendix bursae to left of ductus bursae; ductus bursae about ⅓ as long as corpus bursae, sclerotized posteriorly but more lightly sclerotized anteriorly and wider at corpus bursae; ostium bursae sclerotized, tapered anteriorly, truncated abruptly at membranous connection with ductus bursae; anterior apophyses slightly shorter, but much stouter, than posterior apohyses, about ¼ × longer than ring of abdominal segment VIII; anal papillae lightly sclerotized, rounded at apex, about as long as membranous connection to abdominal segment VIII; covered by mixture of short and longer hair-like setae.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="17" pageId="5" pageNumber="16" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph blockId="5.[140,1108,167,1320]" lastBlockId="6.[140,1108,167,897]" lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="17" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,492,1081,1108]" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">
<emphasis box="[185,278,1081,1107]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="16" reason="1">Biology</emphasis>
and distribution.
</emphasis>
Within 
<collectingRegion box="[592,704,1082,1108]" country="United States of America" name="Louisiana" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Louisiana</collectingRegion>
, 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityYear="2009" box="[717,905,1082,1108]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abita">
<emphasis box="[717,905,1082,1108]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Lithophane abita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is single brooded with adults on the wing from November 21 to March 29 (
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). Elsewhere the flight season extends from 17 October (
<collectingRegion box="[539,653,1152,1179]" country="United States of America" name="Maryland" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Maryland</collectingRegion>
) to early April (
<collectingRegion box="[846,972,1152,1178]" country="United States of America" name="Mississippi" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Mississippi</collectingRegion>
and 
<collectingRegion country="United States of America" name="North Carolina" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">North Carolina</collectingRegion>
). 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityYear="2009" box="[264,452,1187,1213]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abita">
<emphasis box="[264,452,1187,1213]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Lithophane abita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been confirmed from the states of 
<collectingRegion box="[904,1006,1187,1213]" country="United States of America" name="Alabama" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Alabama</collectingRegion>
, 
<collectingRegion box="[1019,1103,1187,1213]" country="United States of America" name="Florida" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Florida</collectingRegion>
, 
<collectingRegion box="[140,233,1223,1249]" country="United States of America" name="Georgia" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Georgia</collectingRegion>
, 
<collectingRegion box="[247,359,1223,1249]" country="United States of America" name="Louisiana" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Louisiana</collectingRegion>
, 
<collectingRegion box="[373,487,1223,1249]" country="United States of America" name="Maryland" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Maryland</collectingRegion>
, 
<collectingRegion box="[501,629,1223,1249]" country="United States of America" name="Mississippi" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Mississippi</collectingRegion>
, and 
<collectingRegion box="[694,876,1223,1249]" country="United States of America" name="North Carolina" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">North Carolina</collectingRegion>
. Th e suspected host plant is bald cypress, 
<taxonomicName authority="Rich. In" authorityName="Rich. In" box="[379,701,1258,1284]" class="Pinopsida" family="Cupressaceae" genus="Taxodium" kingdom="Plantae" order="Pinales" pageId="5" pageNumber="16" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="distichum">
<emphasis box="[379,601,1258,1284]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Taxodium distichum</emphasis>
Rich. In
</taxonomicName>
<collectingRegion box="[708,819,1258,1284]" country="United States of America" name="Maryland" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Maryland</collectingRegion>
the three known localites are in bald cypress swamps within a few kilometers of the northernmost site of natu- rally occurring bald cypress trees. In 
<collectingRegion box="[555,639,167,193]" country="United States of America" name="Florida" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">Florida</collectingRegion>
, this moth is often found in or very close to pond cypress domes (R. M. Gillmore, pers. comm.). A single 
<collectingRegion box="[866,947,202,228]" country="United States of America" name="Florida" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">Florida</collectingRegion>
specimen was labeled as captured at fruit bait.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph box="[140,1007,1654,1676]" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[140,238,1654,1676]" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Figure 8.</emphasis>
Seasonal occurrence of 
<emphasis box="[459,611,1654,1675]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="16">Lithophane abita</emphasis>
at type locality (Abita Springs, Louisiana).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="17" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="6.[140,1108,167,897]" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,298,272,298]" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">
<emphasis box="[185,293,272,298]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="17" reason="1">Remarks</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
R. M. Gillmore provided the authors with numerous additional 
<collectingRegion box="[1027,1108,272,298]" country="United States of America" name="Florida" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">Florida</collectingRegion>
records acquired from various sources, from the counties already listed in the 
<typeStatus box="[1011,1108,308,334]" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">paratype</typeStatus>
series. Th ese specimens are not included as 
<typeStatus box="[628,734,343,369]" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">paratypes</typeStatus>
due to their poor quality.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[140,1108,167,897]" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">
Within 
<collectingRegion box="[277,391,378,404]" country="United States of America" name="Louisiana" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">Louisiana</collectingRegion>
, 
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<emphasis box="[404,420,379,404]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">L</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis box="[437,494,378,404]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">abita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was captured using ultraviolet light traps only at the Abita Springs location despite 39 continuous years of collecting using the same collecting methods throughout the State. No species of 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hubner" authorityYear="1821" box="[764,889,448,474]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[764,889,448,474]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">Lithophane</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was previously recorded for 
<collectingRegion box="[266,377,483,509]" country="United States of America" name="Louisiana" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">Louisiana</collectingRegion>
by 
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, who published the only list of 
<taxonomicName box="[140,260,519,545]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName>
for the state. However, intensive collecting by the senior author at the 
<typeStatus box="[1059,1108,519,545]" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">type</typeStatus>
locality of 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityYear="2009" box="[259,347,554,580]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abita">
<emphasis box="[259,347,554,580]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">L. abita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has turned up about 10 
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<emphasis box="[626,751,554,580]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">Lithophane</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species, some requiring further study to confirm their identity.[move this and the next paragraph to beginning of Discussion section]
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[140,1108,167,897]" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">
Reference to this undescribed species can be found dating back 44 years to 
<bibRefCitation author="Kimball's" firstAuthor="Kimball's" pageId="6" pageNumber="17" refId="ref4633" refString="Kimball CP (1965) Arthropods of Florida and neighboring land areas, Vol. 1: Lepidoptera of Florida, Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture, Gainesville. v + 363 pp., 26 plates." type="book" year="1965">Kimball’s (1965)</bibRefCitation>
book on the 
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of 
<collectingRegion box="[616,701,695,721]" country="United States of America" name="Florida" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">Florida</collectingRegion>
. Under the heading 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hubner" authorityYear="1821" box="[937,1060,695,721]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[937,1060,695,721]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">Lithophane</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp., 
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states that [John G.] Franclemont is describing it. Kimball listed six specimens from the 
<collectingRegion box="[405,486,765,791]" country="United States of America" name="Florida" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">Florida</collectingRegion>
counties of Alachua, Escambia, Hillsborough, and Jefferson with collecting dates on three of the specimens from Lutz, Hillsborough Co., dating back 93 years. Th e oldest specimens of 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Brou &amp; Lafontaine" authorityYear="2009" box="[667,754,835,862]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lithophane" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abita">
<emphasis box="[667,683,836,861]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">L</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis box="[698,754,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">abita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
we were able to find were captured 98 years ago in 1911, also at Lutz, 
<collectingRegion box="[601,686,871,897]" country="United States of America" name="Florida" pageId="6" pageNumber="17">Florida</collectingRegion>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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