| The butterflies of Canada RA Layberry, PW Hall, JD Lafontaine University of Toronto Press, 1998 | 397 | 1998 |
| Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (part) Plusiinae JD Lafontaine The moths of America north of Mexico, 1991 | 393* | 1991 |
| A new molecular phylogeny offers hope for a stable family level classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) R Zahiri, IJ Kitching, JD Lafontaine, M Mutanen, L Kaila, JD Holloway, ... Zoologica Scripta 40 (2), 158-173, 2011 | 387 | 2011 |
| Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, noctuoidea) R Zahiri, JD Holloway, IJ Kitching, JD Lafontaine, M Mutanen, N Wahlberg Systematic entomology 37 (1), 102-124, 2012 | 361 | 2012 |
| Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico BC Schmidt, JD Lafontaine PenSoft Publishers LTD, 2010 | 326 | 2010 |
| Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (part) Plusiinae JD Lafontaine The moths of America north of Mexico, 1991 | 313 | 1991 |
| A review of the higher classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) with special reference to the Holarctic fauna M Fibiger, JD Lafontaine Esperiana, 7-92, 2005 | 289 | 2005 |
| Revised higher classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) JD Lafontaine, M Fibiger The Canadian Entomologist 138 (5), 610-635, 2006 | 261 | 2006 |
| Lock-and-key systems in the inner genitalia of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) as a taxonomic character. JD Lafontaine, K Mikkola | 159 | 1987 |
| Relationships among the basal lineages of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) based on eight gene regions R Zahiri, D Lafontaine, C Schmidt, JD Holloway, IJ Kitching, M Mutanen, ... Zoologica Scripta 42 (5), 488-507, 2013 | 115 | 2013 |
| A transcontinental challenge—a test of DNA barcode performance for 1,541 species of Canadian Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) R Zahiri, JD Lafontaine, BC Schmidt, JR Dewaard, EV Zakharov, ... PloS one 9 (3), e92797, 2014 | 113 | 2014 |
| Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness EJ van Nieukerken, L Kaila, IJ Kitching, NP Kristensen, DC Lees, J Minet, ... Zootaxa 3148 (1), 212-221, 2011 | 90 | 2011 |
| Major lineages of Nolidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) elucidated by molecular phylogenetics R Zahiri, JD Lafontaine, JD Holloway, IJ Kitching, BC Schmidt, L Kaila, ... Cladistics 29 (4), 337-359, 2013 | 72 | 2013 |
| Annotated checklist of the moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Canada and Alaska GR Pohl, JF Landry, BC Schmidt, JD Lafontaine, JT Troubridge, ... | 69 | 2018 |
| Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 JD Lafontaine, BC Schmidt | 65 | 2010 |
| Zoogeography of the Holarctic species of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera): impoftance of the Beringian refuge K Mikkola, D Lafontaine, V Kononenko Entomologica Fennica 2 (3), 157-173, 1991 | 65 | 1991 |
| Probing planetary biodiversity with DNA barcodes: The Noctuoidea of North America R Zahiri, JD Lafontaine, BC Schmidt, JR Dewaard, EV Zakharov, ... PloS one 12 (6), e0178548, 2017 | 62 | 2017 |
| A zoogeographic analysis of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) of Beringia, and some inferences about past Beringian habitats JD Lafontaine, DM Wood The Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 120 (S144), 109-123, 1988 | 56 | 1988 |
| Toward a stable global Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) taxonomy KL Keegan, J Rota, R Zahiri, A Zilli, N Wahlberg, BC Schmidt, ... Insect Systematics and Diversity 5 (3), 1, 2021 | 45 | 2021 |
| Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) of the Yukon JD Lafontaine, DM Wood Insects of the Yukon, 723-785, 1997 | 41 | 1997 |
