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A Key to the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera
with special reference to North and South Dakota


 

5 (3').  Proboscis, even when atrophied,  covered with scales at base.  Labial palpi almost always either porrect and beak-like or upturned beyond vertex and 'sickle-shaped.'  Go to 6.

 

    
    


Probosces of pyralid (top left), cosmopterigid (top right), and crambid (bottom center).

 

5.'  Proboscis naked, can be atrophied or absent.  Palpi variable  Go. to 7

 

                        
                             


Probosces of noctuids (top row), proboscis greatly atrophied in limacodid (bottom left) and absent in cossid (bottom right).

 

 

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Last updated: 06/20/07

Dr. Gerald M. Fauske
collection manager, NDSIRC
research specialist, NDSU
216 Hultz Hall
Fargo, ND 58105
E-Mail: Gerald.Fauske@ndsu.nodak.edu

 
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