Foster H. Benjamin.
On the So-called Introduction of Heliothis dipsacea L. into the United States.
Psyche 39:58, 1932.

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ON THE SO-CALLED INTRODUCTION OF HELIOTHIS DIPSACEA L. INTO THE UNITED STATES
Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture
Throughout the earlier literature there are scattered ref- erences of the occurrence within North America of this Pa- learctic Heliothid. All of these seem to apply to the in- digenous Heliothis phloxiphagus Grote and the name was dropped from the more recent lists.
A paper by Mr. Fred H. Walker was published in 1928 (Psyche, XXXV, 29-30), definitely stating that the Euro- pean species actually did occur in Massachusetts. Through the kindness of Mr. C. W. Johnson one of the Walker specimens was submitted for examination. Both upon superficial characters and upon male genitalia it is the ordinary American phloxiphagus.




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