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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Nolid Moths (Nolidae) » Nolinae » Meganola » Meganola fuscula - Hodges#8985 (Meganola fuscula)

Species Meganola fuscula - Hodges#8985

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Meganola sp.? - Meganola fuscula - female

Meganola fuscula 8985 - Meganola fuscula - female

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Nolidae (Nolid Moths)

Subfamily Nolinae

Genus Meganola

Species fuscula (Meganola fuscula - Hodges#8985)

Hodges Number

8985

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Meganola fuscula (Grote(1), 1881)

Nola fuscula Grote, 1881

Phylogenetic sequence # 931125. (2)

Numbers

Size

Forewing length 10-12 mm.(3)

Identification

Grote (1881) original description as Nola fuscula is available online in the print references.

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (4)

Range

Central and southern California to Colorado and central Texas. (5), (6), (7), (8), (3)

Season

Adults are most common from January to September. (several flights). (8), (3)

Food

The larval host is unknown.

See Also

This group has several very similar species and can be difficult.

Print References

Grote, A.R., 1881. New western moths. Papilio 76.

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, pl. 46, fig. 5; p. 263. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (8)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (7)

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

2.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

3.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

5.	Survey of Utah Moth Species

6.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

7.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

8.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 27 February, 2012 - 8:39pm
Last updated 17 May, 2014 - 9:41pm

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