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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 varia - Hodges#8987 (Meganola varia)

Species Meganola varia - Hodges#8987

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

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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 varia (Meganola varia - Hodges#8987)

Hodges Number

8987

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Meganola varia (Barnes & Lindsey, 1921) (1)

Roeselia varia Barnes & Lindsey, 1921

R. extusata Dyar, 1923

Phylogenetic sequence # 931127.

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included eight species of the genus Meganola in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Barnes & Lindsey (1921) listed the wingspan as 26-32 mm. (2)

Identification

The original description is available in PDF or view online in the print references listed below. (2)

Range

Arizona to western Texas. (3), (4)

Moth Photographers Group shows a California record but the species is not on the California checklist. (5)

Holotype ♂, Palmerlee, Cochise County, Arizona, United States.

Season

The flight period is June to October. (4)

Food

The larval host is unknown.

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (4)

Print References

Barnes, W.M. & A.W. Lindsey, 1921. Notes on new species Lep. Arctiidae. Entomological News, 32: 295. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Works Cited

1.	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 .

2.	Entomological News- Journal available for free at Internet Archuve

3.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 11 October, 2012 - 2:06am
Last updated 9 September, 2013 - 2:49pm

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