Meganola hypenoides

Meganola hypenoides is a species of moth of the family Nolidae. It occurs on São Tomé Island, an island off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa.[1][2] The species was described by George Talbot in 1929 as Nola hypenoides based on specimens collected in 1925 by T.A. Barns.[3] In 2012, it was placed in the genus Meganola.[4]

Meganola hypenoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Nolidae
Genus: Meganola
Species:
M. hypenoides
Binomial name
Meganola hypenoides
(Talbot, 1929)
Synonyms
  • Nola hypenoides Talbot, 1929

Description

The moth has dark brown, almost caramel-colored forewings, which have wavy lines on the edge of the wing and spots on the inner section, and khaki-colored hindwings, which have darker-colored lines running the long way across them. The forewings are definitely larger than the bottom wings, and both the top and bottom wings are somewhat pear shaped. The species also has two antennas.

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References
  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Meganola hypenoides (Talbot, 1929)". Afromoths. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Nola hypenoides". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  3. Talbot, G., 1929. New moths from the islands of St. Thomas and Principe. Bulletin of the Hill Museum 3: 57–61.
  4. Hacker, H.H., Schreier, H.P. & Goater, B. 2012. Revision of the tribe Nolini of Africa and the Western Palaearctic Region (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae, Nolinae). Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 17: 1–614, accessed 2 November 2017


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