Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, B.C. 



Volume 114 1963 Number 3469 



SOME NORTH AMERICAN MOTHS OF THE GENUS ACLERIS 

 (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE) 



By Nicholas S. Obraztsov^ 



The revision of 43 Canadian species of the genus Acleris Hiibner 

 {Peronea Curtis) by McDunnough (1934) remains the most complete 

 paper dealing with the Nearctic moths of this genus. In his later 

 papers the same author gave additional notes on some Acleris species 

 and described two as new. Pending a new revision of the entire genus, 

 the present author decided to publish his few notes on the North 

 American Aclo^is species which were made during his main work on a 

 generic revision of the Nearctic Tortricidae. The paper contains 

 systematic, distributional, and biological data on some known species 

 and descriptions of seven new species and one new subspecies. The 

 study is based on the materials in the collections of the United States 

 National Museum (USNM), the American Museum of Natural 

 History (AMNH), the British Museum (Natural History) (BM), and 

 some others. 



The work for the present paper was done under the auspices of the 

 National Science Foundation. The author acknowledges with thanks 

 the kind assistance of Dr. J. F. Gates Clarke (Washington), Prof. A. B. 



' Research fellow, Department of Entomology, the American Museum of Natural History. 



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