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Drepanidae - Literature

All Literature about Drepanidae will be present here.
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For now some of the most importend publications for Drepanidae are listed below. Shortly I will upgrade this list with most of the literature availiable.

Gaede, M. 1932. Résultats scientifiques du voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises de LL.AA.RR. le Prince et la Princesse Léopold de Belgique. Lepidoptera I. Uraniidae, Drepanidae, Notodontidae. Mém. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg. hors ser 4(6):57-61.
Lepidoptera; Urani., Drepan.: Alcidis agathyrsus, aruus, Cyphura maxima, Oreta subvinosa Aru, W New Guinea.

Holloway, J. D. 1998. The moths of Borneo: Families Castniidae, Callidulidae, Drepanidae and Uraniidae. Malayan Nature Journal 51:1-155, plates 1-10.
Records and new species of New Guinea and Solomon Islands (Lepidoptera: Callidulidae, Drepanidae, and Uraniidae including Epipleminae). Also Gymnoscelis fragilis Warren (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from New Guinea.

Turner, A. J. 1911. Studies in Australian Lepidoptera. Ann. Qld. Mus. 10:59-135.
Lepidoptera; Noctuidae, Uraniidae, Drepanidae, Thyrididae, Pyralidae, Eupterotidae: Several spp. Kei, New Guinea, Louisiades, New Britain, Solomon Is.

Turner, A. J. 1926. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera: Drepanidae, Limacodidae, Zygaenidae. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 51:411-45.
Lepidoptera, Drepan.: Oreta jaspidea; Limacod.: Scopelodes nitens, Susica kenricki, Birthama modesta New Guinea.

Warren, W. 1922-24. Family: Drepanidae, pp. 443-90in A. Seitz (ed.)
Macrolepidoptera of the World. Vol. 10. Lepidoptera, Drepan.: Many n. spp., sev. n. sspp., Procampsis* Goodenough, Louisiades, Mysol, Solomon Is., New Guinea.

Watson, A. 1957. A revision of the genus Tridrepana Swinhoe (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae). Bull. Brit. Mus. (N.H.) Ent. 4:407-500.
Lepidoptera, Drepanidae: T. lunulata prolata*, olivacea crocata*, sigma* Rook (Umboi), Buru, Bismarcks, Bougainville, Solomon Is.

Watson, A. 1961. A taxonomic study of some Indo-Australian Drepanidae (Lepidoptera). Bull. Brit. Mus. (N. H.) Ent. 10(8):317-347.
Lepidoptera, Drepanidae: Oreta singapura continua, Campylopteryx fleximargo Fergusson, New Guinea.

Watson, A. 1967. A survey of the extra-Ethiopian Oretinae (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae). Bull. Brit. Mus. (N. H.) Ent. 19(3):149-221, pl. 1-9.
Lepidoptera, Drepanidae: New Guinea and Solomon Islands records: Oreta perfida Warren, 1923; Oreta singapura continua (Warren), 1899; Oreta sublustris Warren, 1923; Oreta subvinosa Warren, 1903; Oreta unilinea (Warren), 1899; Oreta undescribed species (extensa species-group); Oreta jaspidea (Warren), 1896; Oreta rubrifumata Warren, 1923; Urogonodes patiens (Warren), 1906; U. macrura Warren, 1923; U. scintillans (Warren), 1896; Astatochroa suphurata (Warren), 1907; Cyclura trogoptera (Rothschild), 1915.

Wilkinson, C. 1967. A taxonomic revision of the genus Teldenia Moore (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae, Drepaninae). Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London 119:303-362, 4 pls.
Revision of Teldenia spp. in New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago,and Solomon Islands (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae).

Wilkinson, C. 1967. A taxonomic study of a new genus of Drepanidae (Lepidoptera) from New Guinea. Proc. R. Ent. Soc. Lond. 36(1-2):17-29, 1 pl.
Lepidoptera, Drepanidae: Argodrepana* galbana* SE New Guinea, denticulata*, tenebra*, umbrosa* NW New Guinea.

Wilkinson, C. 1969. Some aspects of zoogeography and speciation in the genus Teldenia Moore (Drepanidae: Lepidoptera). J. Nat.Hist. 3:367-380.
Biogeography of Teldenia spp. in New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae).

Wilkinson, C. 1970. A new species Argodrepana and records of other white Drepanidae (Lepidoptera) from New Guinea. Pacif. Ins. 12(2):241-249.
Argodrepana marilo new species from Mt. Kaindi, Papua New Guinea, and records of Argodrepana verticata (Warren) and 6 Teldenia spp. from Papua New Guinea (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae).

Wilkinson, C. 1970. Numerical taxonomic methods applied to some Indo-Australian Drepanidae: Lepidoptera. J. Nat. Hist. 4:269-288.
Numerical taxonomy of Teldenia spp. and relatives, including many species from New Guinea (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae).

Wilkinson, C. 1971. Notes on a numerical analysis of Argodrepana marilo Wilkinson and related species (Drepanidae: Lepidoptera). Pacif. Ins. 15(2):329-332.
Numerical taxonomic relationships of Argodrepana marilo Wilkinson and related species from New Guinea (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae).