Meganola chionea ( Hampson, 1911 )

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 : 168

Meganola chionea ( Hampson, 1911)

( Figs 33 , 75 )

Nola chionea Hampson, 1911 , Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 8: 398. Type locality: S. Nigeria, Ilesha. Holotype, ♂ (NHMUK).

Type material examined. Holotype, male, red ring type label, „S. Nigeria. Ilesha. L.E.H. Humfrey 1911-57”. Slide No.: BM Arct. 6467 (prep. by Gy.M. László) ( NHMUK).

Remark. Hacker did not examine the genitalia of the holotype of M. chionea ( Hampson, 1911) as part of his 2012 monograph, only illustrating the genitalia of a topotypical specimen in a later publication ( Hacker 2014). The author of this present paper had the opportunity to dissect and image the genitalia of the male holotype ( Fig. 75 ), which agrees well with the one published by Hacker (2014) as M. chionea . The knowledge of the genital morphology of the holotype of M. chionea revealed the existence of two additional species in Ivory Coast which are described below. As the sympatrically occurring members of the chionea species-group are not easily distinguishable by external characters, the identification of the female specimens illustrated in Hacker et al. (2012) as M. chionea are rather dubious as they could belong either to M. diagrapha Hacker, 2012 or to one of the two new species described below. The female specimen and genitalia illustrated under fig. H on p. 463 is most probably M. parastrigula Hacker, 2012 (cf. p. 231 in Hacker et al. 2012). Further species related to M. chionea based on male genital morphology are M. fulvolurida Hacker, 2012 and M. karischiella Hacker, 2012 .

Distribution. Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana and D.R. Congo ( Hacker et al. 2012).

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 75–83: male genitalia (all in coll. ANHRT unless otherwise indicated). 75, Meganola chionea, holotype, Nigeria, BM Arct. 6467 (prep. by Gy. M. László) (NHMUK); 76, M. subchionea sp. n., holotype, Ivory Coast, LGNA 139; 77, M. cinereoparva sp. n., holotype, Ivory Coast, LGNA 397; 78, M. cinereoparva sp. n., paratype, Ivory Coast, LGNA 137; 79, M. mesothermoides, Liberia, LGNA 502; 80, M. spermophaga, Liberia, LGNA 547; 81, M. pyrrhomorpha, Ivory Coast, LGNA 565; 82, M. foviferoides, Togo, LGNA 597; 83, M. foviferoides, Zambia, LGNA 17.