Meganola nitida ( Hampson, 1894 )

Joshi, Rahul, Singh, Navneet & Kuni, Nikhil, 2021, A catalogue of Nolidae Bruand, 1846 from India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea), Zootaxa 5034 (1), pp. 1-112 : 67

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5034.1.1

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scientific name

Meganola nitida ( Hampson, 1894 )
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43. Meganola nitida ( Hampson, 1894) View in CoL ( Fig. 53 View FIGURES 49–56 )

Selca nitida Hampson, 1894 View in CoL , The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Moths, 2: 147.

TL: Manipur, India. Holotype (♀).

TD: NHMUK.

Material examined. West Bengal: Kalimpong, Uper Kuawapani , (N27° 046270’, E88° 684359’, 718m), 12.VIII.2019, 1 ex., leg. N. Kuni. GoogleMaps

Distribution in India. West Bengal (present study); Manipur ( Hampson 1894); NW Himalaya ( Strand 1920b), Sikkim, Darjeeling, Naga Hills ( László et al. 2007).

Elsewhere. E. Pegu ( Hampson 1894), Himalaya, Burma ( Holloway 2003); Nepal ( László et al. 2007).

Hampson, G. F. (1894) The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths. Vol. 2. Taylor and Francis, London, 609 pp.

Holloway, J. D. (2003) The Moths of Borneo (part 18): Family Nolidae. Southdene Sdn. Bhd., Kuala Lumpur, 279 pp.

Laszlo, G. M., Ronkay, G. & Witt, T. J. (2007) New taxa in the Meganola scripta (Moore, 1888) species group and in the genus Dialithoptera Hampson, 1900. Investigations on Asian Nolidae IV. Entomofauna, 28 (2), 17 - 32.

Strand, E. (1920 b) Arctiidae: Subfam. Nolinae. In: Wagner, H. (Ed.), Lepidopterorum Catalogus, Part 24. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 441 - 500.

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FIGURES 49–56. Nolidae Adults: 49, Manoba fasciatus; 50, Manoba lativittata; 51, Manoba tesselata; 52, Meganola argentescens; 53, Meganola nitida 54, Meganola ruficostata; 55, Meganola suffusata; 56, Meganola triangulalis.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nolidae

Genus

Meganola