Bibliographical summary

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Wiltshire, E.P. (1979). A Revision of the Armadini (Lep. Noctuidae), Entomograph, Vol. 2 : 7-78.

Wiltshire, E.P. (1980). The Larger Moths of Dhofar and their Zoogeographical composition. Journ. of Oman Studies, Special Report 2 : 187-216.

Wiltshire, E.P. (1985). New Heterocera from Oman (with a revised list of the moths known from the Musandam Peninsula). Ibid., Vol. 7 : 39-48.

Wiltshire, E.P. (1988). The Larger Moths (Macro-Heterocera) of the Wahiba Sands. Ibid., Special report 3 : 347-360.

Wiltshire, E.P. (1990). An Illustrated, Annotated Catalogue of the Macro-Heterocera of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, Vol. 11 : 91-250.

Wiltshire, E.P. (1994). Arabian Lepidoptera: A Supplement to the Catalogue of Saudi Arabian Macro-Heterocera. Ibid., Vol. 14 : 113-136.

Hacker, Hermann (1996). Revision der Gattung Hadena Schrank, 1802 (Lepidoptera : Noctuidae). Esperiana, Bd. 5 : 509-540, Taf. T, Fig. 11.

Wiltshire, E.P. & A. Legrain, in press. Bufoidia, n. gen. (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae) : its Arabian taxa, and their affinity to other moths of the subfamily Lasiocampinae. Fauna of Saudi Arabia.

Hausmann, A. & B. Skule, in press. The Geometrid Moths of Oman.

Plante, Jacques, in press. Trois nouveaux Caradrina d’Arabie, Alexanor.

Hacker, Hermann, in prep. Insect Fauna of Yemen, I : Systematic List of the Lepidoptera of the Arabian Peninsula; Contribution to the Lepidoptera fauna of Yemen with description of some new taxa. Esperiana, Bd.

Acknowledgements

We thank very greatly Drs. Kamil and Jehanne Al Rustom-Boussard and Hassan Y. Qaoud (Sharjah) for logistical assistance, Philippe Fastè (Belgium) for preparing the material, Dr Axel Hausmann (Germany) for determinations and advice, and Dr Marijcke Jongbloed (Natural History Museum, Sharjah) and Dr Michael Gillett (Emirates University, Al Ain), for encouraging us to publish this checklist inTribulus.

We hope our modest observations will be useful to fellow researchers and to the authorities responsible for nature conservation in the UAE.

Dr Albert Legrain Edward P. Wiltshire,

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