Noctuoidea Sibiricae

This fully illustrated guide with colour plates of adults and images of genitalia for all known species is published for the first time for the Russian territory. The scope of this book-series in fact exceeds that territory and also provides valuable information for neighbouring countries and regions. Classification of the superfamily Noctuoidea has seen dramatic changes since the first two volumes of the “Noc- tuidae Sibiricae” were published in 2005 and 2010. The “Noctuidae (sensu lato)” were divided into four fami- lies: Nolidae, Erebidae, Euteliidae and Noctuidae; Arctiinae and Lymantriinae were recognized as subfamilies of Erebidae. To address the many new faunistic data and taxonomic changes accumulated in this period we will re-publish the first two volumes of the “Noctuidae Sibiricae” in the framework of PMWM as a combined, up- dated “Noctuoidea Sibiricae, parts one & two”. Like the current part three these and planned parts four and five of “Noctuoidea Sibiricae”, will each contain the revision of about 400–500 taxa, including diagnoses, bionomics, distributional data maps, adult and genitalia illustrations for each species. Many museums and private lepidopterists have been extremely helpful in supporting this long and exhaustive work. It is our hope that lepidopterists interested in the fauna of Russia and the greater Holarctic region will find this new information useful to their study and find Noctuoidea Sibiricae an essential resource.