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Another Blood Feeder? Experimental Feeding of a Fruit-Piercing Moth Species on Human Blood in the Primorye Territory of Far Eastern Russia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae)

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank our field guide Boris Popkov, the staff of the Hunting Area, and the research scientists at Gornotayeznaya Biological Station. We greatly appreciate the assistance of Ms. Valentina Kolesnikova from the Russian Academy of Sciences Far Eastern Branch. We also thank Dr. Hans Bänziger for an earlier review of this manuscript, many helpful discussions about Calyptra, and additional feeding observations/images for C. thalictri. We also thank an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments that improved this paper. The work reported in this paper was ancillary to an expedition designed to collect frozen tissues of noctuid moths, partially funded under a grant to PZG (NSF DEB 0530889) and a grant from The Explorer’s Club NY to JMZ 2006.

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  1. Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, P.O. Box 110620, Natural Area Drive, Gainesville, FL, 32611-0620, USA

    J. M. Zaspel

  2. Florida Museum of Natural History, McGuire Center for Lepidopteran Research, University of Florida, SW 34th Street and Hull Road, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA

    J. M. Zaspel & P. Z. Goldstein

  3. Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Entomology, Prospect 100-letija Vladivostoka, Vladivostok, K-22, Russia

    V. S. Kononenko

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Zaspel, J.M., Kononenko, V.S. & Goldstein, P.Z. Another Blood Feeder? Experimental Feeding of a Fruit-Piercing Moth Species on Human Blood in the Primorye Territory of Far Eastern Russia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae). J Insect Behav 20, 437–451 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10905-007-9090-3

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