Meganola hypenoides

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

Meganola hypenoides is a species of moth of the Nolidae family. It is found on São Tomé Island,[1] an island off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. Its status is uncertain. The species was collected in January and February 1926 and was later described by George Talbot in 1929 as Nola hypenoides.[2] In 2012, it was placed in the Meganola genus and became Meganola hypenoides.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Talbot, G., 1929. New moths from the islands of St. Thomas and Principe. Bulletin of the Hill Museum 3: 57–61.
  3. ↑ 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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