Species Meganola phylla - Coastal Plain Meganola Moth - Hodges#8983.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Food · Internet References

8983.1 Coastal Plain Meganola Moth? - Meganola phylla

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

No Taxon (Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea

Family Nolidae (Nolid Moths)

Subfamily Nolinae

Genus Meganola

Species phylla (Coastal Plain Meganola Moth - Hodges#8983.1)

Hodges Number

8983.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

First described in 1898 by Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr. as Nola phylla

Meganola minuscula phylla

Also considered by some to be just a color variant of Meganola minuscula

Food

Larvae feed on oaks (Quercus)

Internet References

Journal of the New York Entomological Society, v.6 (1898), p.43 Dyar's original description of the species.

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 17 October, 2009 - 3:58pm

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