Meganola tenebrosa (Hampson, 1896)

Yu, Yong, Xu, Wen, Huang, Zhen-Fu & Hu, Yan-Qing, 2025, Description of a new species of the Meganola tenebrosa (Hampson, 1896) species-group from China (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Nolidae), Zootaxa 5588 (2), pp. 396-400 : 397

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5588.2.13

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4E2151CD-1634-4C3E-9F03-953AE17B1DA5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14931308

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B6177D-FF8E-FFB0-DEB8-FE45FA36FCE7

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scientific name

Meganola tenebrosa
status

 

Key to the species of the Meganola tenebrosa View in CoL species-group

1 Postmedial line is formed by dots and the ground color of forewing is grayish white....................... M. suffusata View in CoL

- Postmedial line is linear and the ground color of forewing is grayish brown or dark brown........................... 2

2 Harpe is bifurcated apically.................................................................. M. basisignata

- Harpe is thorn-shaped.................................................................................. 3

3 Postmedial line is wavy....................................................................... M. tenebrosa View in CoL

- Postmedial line is zigzagged............................................................................ 4

4 Harpe is thin and straight...................................................................... M. margalla

- Harpe is thick and curved............................................................................... 5

5 Postmedial line is almost straight below vein M 3................................................. M. guentereberti

- Postmedial line is arcuate below vein M 3 ......................................... M. lufengensis Yu & Hu , sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

SuperFamily

Noctuoidea

Family

Nolidae

Genus

Meganola