Michael G. Pogue’s research while affiliated with Smithsonian Institution and other places

... Dibrachys microgastri (Gordh) is recognized as a primary parasitoid, solitary or gregarious, or larvae, nymphs, or facultative hyperparasitoid, ectoparasitoid or endoparasitoid. The species is also used in biological control (Hu, 1964;Herting, 1975;Chu, 1978;Gülel, 1982Gülel, , 1988Fry, 1989;Knight et al., 1992;Vidal, 1993;Askew and Shaw, 1997;Myartseva et al., 1999;Mitroiu, 2001;Bărbuceanu and Andriescu, 2009). The primary hosts belong to Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and Neuroptera (Thompson, 1958;Peck, 1963;Herting, 1976Herting, , 1977Herting, , 1978Burks, 1979;Peters and Baur, 2011). ...

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Revision-Chalcidoidea-MNH-IS-Rabat Kissayi-et-al 2020

... Specimens of first and second instar larvae were collected from the plants and sent to the Laboratório de Biologia do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Baiano, where they were kept and fed of H. undatus' cladodes until the emergence of the adults for confirmation of their identity as Chrysodeixis includens Walker, 1858 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) by Dr. Júlio Cláudio Martins following identification key (Lafontaine and Poole, 1991;Pogue, 2005). ...

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First report of Chrysodeixis includens (Walker, [1858]) (Lepidotera: Noctuidae) in the dragon fruit (Hylocereus undatus) (Cactaceae)

... During examination of this material a new species of Schinia Hübner, 1818, was discovered. Schinia is the most diverse genus in the subfamily Heliothinae with 118 species (Hardwick 1996, Knudson et al. 2003, Pogue and Harp 2003a, Pogue and Harp 2003b, Pogue and Harp 2003c, Pogue and Harp 2004. This new species is unusual because of its lack of forewing pattern and solid color hindwing. ...

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A new species of Schinia H bner from riparian habitats in the Grand Canyon (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae)

... During examination of this material a new species of Schinia Hübner, 1818, was discovered. Schinia is the most diverse genus in the subfamily Heliothinae with 118 species (Hardwick 1996, Knudson et al. 2003, Pogue and Harp 2003a, Pogue and Harp 2003b, Pogue and Harp 2003c, Pogue and Harp 2004. This new species is unusual because of its lack of forewing pattern and solid color hindwing. ...

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A new species of Schinia H bner from riparian habitats in the Grand Canyon (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae)

... Since Hardwick (1996) revised the North American Heliothinae there have been several new species described in the genus Schinia Hübner (Knudson, Bordelon, and Pogue 2003; Pogue and Harp 2003; Pogue and Harp 2004; Pogue 2004; Pogue and Harp 2005). Th is paper describes a new species that seems to be associated with sandy areas and dunes of the southern coastal plain in Georgia and the East Gulf coastal plain in Alabama and Florida. ...

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A new species of Schinia Hübner from the southeastern United States (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Heliothinae)

... While early focus on these taxa suggested GC was not an evolutionarily significant landform, more collecting and observation in recent decades has revealed many more endemic species-level taxa in GC, including several neotropical isolates ( (Phillips et al. 1987;Brian 2000;Arizona Rare Plants Committee 2001;Hodgson 2001); the above-mentioned cave endemic invertebrates; Kaibab monkey grasshopper -Morsea kaibabensis; at least four chironomid midge species (Sublette et al. 1998); Tapeats robber fly -Efferia tapeats (Scarbrough et al. in press); three unique Nebria ground beetles (D. Kavanaugh, California Academy of Sciences, personal communication); Schinia immaculata (Pogue 2004); Kaibab paper wasp -Polistes kaibabensis (Snelling 1974); and other species. While no species-level vertebrates are endemic to GC, 19.2% of 775 invertebrate species that have been studied in detail are rare and 9.7% of those species are endemic (Table 4). ...

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The Biogeographic Significance of a Large, Deep Canyon: Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, USA

... Chrysodeixis includens (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Plusiinae) is a characteristic species from the Western Hemisphere that is distributed from northern United States of America to southern South America (Eichlin and Cunningham 1978;Herzog 1980;Kitching and Rawlins 1987;Jost and Pitre 2002;Pogue 2005;Betancourt and Scatoni 2006;Navarro et al. 2009). Adults are small to average sized moth, with robust body, small tufts of scales in the dorsal part of thorax and anterior abdominal region, and characteristic silver marking near the center of the forewing. ...

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Redescription of immature stages of the soybean looper (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Plusiinae)

... 37C, D, F). The congeneric North American species S. liburna (Geyer) is similarly variable (Pogue 2012), which may be linked to the caterpillar feeding on dead wood, which is likely to be variable in quality. Schaus, 1901 was described from Trinidad (Schaus 1901), and the type (Fig. 37B) was examined in USNM. ...

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New records of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) from Tobago, West Indies, with two new combinations and one new synonym in Erebidae.

... Other species of Diogmites feed primarily on Hymenoptera followed by Diptera, Coleoptera, and Hemiptera; a few species are reported to feed on Araneae, Ephemeroptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, Odonata, and Orthoptera (Artigas, 1966;Baker and Fischer, 1975;Barnes, 2010;Bromley, 1914Bromley, , 1930Bromley, , 1931aBromley, and b, 1934Bromley, , 1936Bromley, , 1942Bromley, , 1946aBromley, and b, 1947Bromley, , 1948Bromley, , 1950aCole, 1969;Dennis, 2012;Dennis and Gowen, 1978;Dennis and Lavigne, 2007;Dennis et al., 2009Dennis et al., , 2010Dennis et al., , 2012Fattig, 1945;Lavigne and Holland, 1969;Lavigne and Pfadt, 1966;Linsley, 1958Linsley, , 1960McAtee and Banks, 1920;Reinhard, 1924;Scarbrough, 1979;Walton, 1914). Hobby, 1931a andb, 1935;Lavigne, 1970aLavigne, , 1979Lavigne, , 1984Lavigne, , 1992Lavigne and Dennis, 1985;Lavigne et al., 1976Lavigne et al., , 1983Lavigne and Pogue, 2009;Lehr, 1958a and b;Londt, 1991;Poulton, 1906). (Bromley, 1936), honey bees (Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758) (Bromley, 1936), and bees and wasps (Artigas, 1966;Bromley, 1950a). ...

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Ethology of Diogmites crudelis Bromley, 1936 (Diptera: Asilidae) in Northeastern Florida, U.S.A.

... comm.). 932139 Schinia volupia -Synonymy with Schinia masoni from Pogue et al. 2013. 932225.1 Elaphria hypophaea -Specimens of Elaphria fuscimacula (Grote, 1881) from southern Texas southward have been re-identified by JDL as the central and northern South American species Elaphria hypophaea on the basis of barcodes and differences in the male genitalia. ...

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Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico IV