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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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