Meganola aarviki Hacker, 2012

László, Gyula M., 2020, Review of the genus Meganola Dyar, 1898 of Ivory Coast and adjacent areas with descriptions of 5 new species and several taxonomic updates (Lepidoptera Nolidae, Nolinae) - Taxonomic studies on West African Nolinae I., Zootaxa 4853 (2), pp. 151-182 : 164

Meganola aarviki Hacker, 2012

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Meganola aarviki Hacker, 2012 , Esperiana 17: 451. Type locality: Republic of Congo, Kisangani. Holotype, ♂ (MWM/ZSM).

Material examined. Ivory Coast. 1 ♂, 174m Tai NP. Tai Research Station ( SRET), 05°50’00”N, 07°20’32.0W, 25.III.–17.IV.2017, MV light Aristophanous, A., Aristophanous, M., Geiser, M., Moretto, P. leg., ANHRT:2017.25, slide No.: LGNA 980 ♂ ( ANHRT) .

Distribution. Congo and Kenya ( Hacker et al. 2012). The single male specimen collected in Tai National Park represents new country record for Ivory Coast.

Figures

FIGURES 21–40: adults (all in coll. ANHRT unless otherwise indicated). 21, Meganola furvitincta, lectotype, ♂, Sierra Leone (NHMUK); 22, M. furvitincta, ♂, Liberia; 23, M. aarviki, ♂, Ivory Coast; 24, M. spherographa, ♂, Ivory Coast; 25, M. spherographa, ♀, Liberia; 26, M. taiana sp. n., holotype, ♂, Ivory Coast; 27, M. taiana sp. n., paratype, ♂, Liberia; 28, M. taiana sp. n., paratype, ♀, Ivory Coast; 29, M. xantholeuca, ♀, Ivory Coast; 30, M. xantholeuca, ♀, Liberia; 31, M. rhyssomorpha, ♂, Ivory Coast; 32, M. rhyssomorpha, ♀, Ivory Coast; 33, M. chionea, holotype, ♂, Nigeria (NHMUK); 34, M. subchionea sp. n., holotype, ♂, Ivory Coast; 35, M. cinereoparva sp. n., holotype, ♂, Ivory Coast; 36, M. cinereoparva sp. n., paratype, ♂, Ivory Coast; 37, M. mesothermoides, holotype, ♀, Ghana (NHMUK); 38, M. mesothermoides, ♂, Liberia; 39, M. spermophaga, ♂, Liberia; 40, M. spermophaga, ♀, Sierra Leone.

FIGURES 66–74: male genitalia (all in coll.ANHRT unless otherwise indicated). 66, Meganola dananae, Guinea, LGNA 975; 67, M. furvitincta, lectotype, Sierra Leone, BM Arct. 6469 (prep. by Gy. M. László) (NHMUK); 68, M. furvitincta, Liberia, LGNA 491; 69, M. aarviki, Ivory Coast, LGNA 980; 70, M. spherographa, Ivory Coast, LGNA 228; 71, M. taiana sp. n., holotype, Ivory Coast, LGNA 142; 72, M. taiana sp. n., paratype, Liberia, LGNA 487; 73, M. fontainei, Zambia, LGNA 1; 74, M. rhyssomorpha, Ivory Coast, LGNA 233.