Review of the genus Meganola Dyar, 1898 of Ivory Coast and adjacent areas with descriptions of 5 new species and several taxonomic updates (Lepidoptera Nolidae, Nolinae) - Taxonomic studies on West African Nolinae I.
Author
László, Gyula M.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-09-22
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Meganola monofascia
(van
Son, 1933
)
(
Figs 16–18
,
63–65
, 107)
Nola major
var.
monofascia
van
Son, 1933
,
Annals
of the
Transvaal Museum
15: 214. Type locality: [
RSA
]
Transvaal
, Pietersburg.
Holotype
,
♂
(TMSA).
=
Meganola septima
Hacker, 2012
, Esperiana 17: 375,
syn. n.
=
Meganola octava
Hacker, 2012
, Esperiana 17: 377,
syn. n.
=
Meganola heteromorpha
Hacker, 2012
, Esperiana 17: 383,
syn. n.
=
Meganola dissoluta
Hacker, 2012
, Esperiana 17: 384,
syn. n.
=
Meganola brachyvalva
Hacker, 2012
, Esperiana 17:385,
syn. n.
=
Meganola pseudofuscata
Hacker, 2012
, Esperiana 17: 468,
syn. n.
Material examined.
Ivory Coast
.
1 ♂
,
1171 m
,
Mt Tonkoui Peak
, N07°27’15”, W07°38’13”,
12–18.VII.2015
,
Light Trap
, leg.
Aristophanous, M.
,
Moretto, P.
&
Ruzzier, E.
,
ANHRT
:2017.14, slide
No.
:
LGNA
26 ♂
;
3 ♂
, same site, but collected at
1–8.XI.2015
,
ANHRT
:2017.16, slide
Nos
:
LGNA
237 ♂
,
LGNA
245 ♂
,
LGNA
246 ♂
.
Liberia
.
1 ♂
,
1327m
,
Nimba county
,
ENNR
,
Nimba
Mts
, main ridge (montane forest),
7°31’1.3”N
,
8°31’1.0”W
,
9.xii.2017
,
Light Trap
(blended bulb 250W),
Aristophanous, M.
,
Sáfián, Sz.
,
Simonics
, G.,
Smith
, L. leg.,
ANHRT
:2017.33, slide
No.
:
LGNA
583 ♂
.
Cameroon
.
2 ♂
,
1246m
,
Adamawa Region
,
Adamawa Plateau
,
7.3km
West
of Bazanga,
Chute de Tello
,
07°13’50.6”N
,
13°56’29.2”E
,
24–30.ix.2018
,
MV
Light Trap
,
Sáfián, Sz.
,
Simonics, G.
leg.,
ANHRT
:2018.36, slide
Nos
:
LGNA
568 ♂
,
LGNA
570 ♂
.
Sierra Leone
.
1 ♂
,
80m
,
Kalainkay
nr.
Kamabai
,
Northern Prov.
,
3–6.XI.2015
, N09°10’52”, W11°56’44”,
Light Trap
,
R
.
Goff
coll., leg.
Smith
,
R
. &
Takano, H.
,
ANHRT
:2018.20, slide
No.
:
LGNA
289 ♂
;
1 ♂
,
420m
,
Mansonia village
at the foothills of
Loma Mts
, N09°07’47”, W11°05’06”,
6.vi.2016
,
Light Trap
, leg.
Takano
,
Miles
&
Goff
,
ANHRT
:2017.18, slide No.:
LGNA
471 ♂
.
Zambia
.
1 ♂
,
1400m
, Hillwood, Ikelenge, S11°16’02”, E24°18’59’,
30.IV.–11.
V
.2014
,
Light Trap
, leg.
Smith
,
R
.,
Takano, H.
,
Chmurova, L.
&
Smith
, L.,
ANHRT
:2017.11, slide
No.
:
LGNA
103 ♂
;
1 ♂
, same locality, but collected at
25–27.xi.2014
by
Smith
,
R
. &
Takano
, H.,
ANHRT
:2017.12, slide
No.
:
LGNA
393 ♂
.
Mozambique
.
1 ♂
,
Maputo
Special Reserve
,
22m
,
West Gate
,
Sand Forest
,
26°30’14.2”S
,
32°42’59.6”E
,
3–13.XII.2016
,
Light Trap
, Aristophanous, M.,
Cristovao, J.
,
László, G.
,
Miles, W.
leg.,
ANHRT
:2017.22, slide
No.
:
LGNA
354♂
;
2 ♂
, same locality and collectors, but collected at
21–30.XII.2016
, slide
Nos
:
LGNA
517 ♂
,
LGNA
518 ♂
;
1 ♂
, same site, but collected at
21–22.II.2018
, by
László, G.
,
Mulvaney
, J. &
Smith, L.
,
ANHRT
:2018.2, slide
No.
:
LGNA
519 ♂
;
1 ♂
,
Ponta Milibangalala
,
Dune Grassland
,
26°26’58.6”S
,
32°55’29.8”E
,
25–30.
V
.2017
,
MV
Light Trap
,
Aristophanous, M.
,
László, G.
,
Miles
, W.,
Vetina
, A. leg.,
ANHRT
:2017.26 (
ANHRT
).
Remark.
The externally variable but internally (genital morphology) fairly constant and distinctive
M. monofascia
has been found to be surprisingly widely distributed throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. As the validity of the numerous related species described by Hacker (
Hacker
et al.
2012
) in the
M. monofascia
species-group is not supported by any firm distinctive morphological characters (cf.
Hacker
et al.
2012: 366
, 375, 377, 383, 384, 385, 468),
M. septima
,
octava
,
heteromorpha
,
dissoluta
,
brachyvalva
and
pseudofuscata
are synonymized here with
M. monofascia
. The closest relative of
M. monofascia
is the Madagascan taxon
M. praefica
(
Saalmüller, 1884
)
.
Meganola monofascia
is hardly distinguishable externally from the Southern African
M. bispermutata
Hacker, 2012
despite the considerable differences in their male genitalia (László & Vetina 2019). It is also worth noting that the three specimens identified as
M. furvitincta
(
Hampson, 1914
)
from
Nigeria
and
Ivory Coast
figured by
Hacker
et al
. (2012: 380)
belong in fact to
M. monofascia
.
Distribution.
South Africa
,
Zimbabwe
,
Tanzania
,
Uganda
,
Ethiopia
,
Tanzania
,
Kenya
, D.R.
Congo
,
Republic of Congo
,
Burundi
,
Nigeria
, in addition,
Ivory Coast
(
Hacker
et al.
2012
),
Senegal
(
Hacker 2014
) and
Mozambique
(László & Vetina 2019). The specimens from
Sierra Leone
,
Liberia
,
Cameroon
and
Zambia
represent new country records.