Based on vast material from the collection of the Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum (HMIM), the largest insect museum in the Middle East, which belongs to IRIPP, ITRD (Insect Taxonomy Research Department), some materials of Vartain Collection of Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany and Zoologische Staatssammlung München (ZSM), Germany; 29 species of subfamily Plusiinae, Noctuidae have been recorded. This information includes more than 1412 objects and 679 sites from objects. The materials of HMIM were collected on several expeditions by the Iranian entomologists of PPDRI from forty years ago till the present time. Some further taxonomic changes are proposed. Images of male genital organs and adult imagines, taxon information including citation of original description and the type materials, flight period, collected localities, elevational range, global distribution, distribution maps based on BIOOFFICE biodiversity software and some larval host-plants are presented for each species. Also in this study, 2 genera and 4 species marked by an asterisk are newly recorded from Iran.
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Sociedad Hispano-Luso-Americana de Lepidopterología (provided by DOAJ)
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