Download or read book American Moths of the Subfamily Phycitinae written by Carl Heinrich and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper completes a 25-year study of the New World moths of the subfamily Phycitinae. It is based chiefly on the collections of the United States National Museum and the Hulst collection, formerly at Rutgers University, supplemented by material from the Cornell and Canadian national collections and specimens -- mostly tropical American -- from the British Museum, and Janse collection, and the collections of several South American lepidopterists. Recognized and included in the classification are 194 genera, 619 species, and 21 subspecies (local races). Of these, 60 genera, 81 species, and 8 races are described as new.