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Megalonycta mediovitta

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Description

Megalonycta mediovitta (Rothschild, 1924)

(Figs 153, 159, 162)

Acronycta mediovitta Rothschild, 1924, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14 (9): 312. Type-locality: Madagascar, Diego Suarez. Lectotype: male, in coll. BMNH, designated by Viette (1965b).

Synonymy

Thalatha waterloti Boursin, 1928, Encyclopèdie entomologique. Series B. Memoires et notes. III. Lepidoptera. Recueil d’tudes biologiques et systmatiques sur les lépidoptres du Globe 3 (2): 57, pl. 4: fig. 6. Type-locality: Madagascar Central, Tananarive-Résidence.

Notes

Published as part of Kiss, Ádám, 2017, Taxonomic review of the Craniophora s. l. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Acronictinae) generic complex with description of 8 new genera and 13 new species, pp. 1-90 in Zootaxa 4355 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4355.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1066714

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Biodiversity

Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Megalonycta
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Rothschild
Species
mediovitta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Megalonycta mediovitta (Rothschild, 1924) sec. Kiss, 2017

References

  • Rothschild, W. (1924) Some new or noteworthy Madagascar and African heterocera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 9 (14), 306 - 317. http: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222932408633127
  • Viette, P. (1965 b) Noctuelles Trifides de Madagascar: Ecologie, Biogeographie, Morphologie et Taxonomie (Lep.), suite. Faune de Madagascar, 20 (1), 285 - 490.
  • Boursin, Ch. (1928) Contribution a l'etude des noctuelles trifides. Encyclopedie entomologique. Series B. Memoires et notes. III. Lepidoptera. Recueil d'tudes biologiques et systmatiques sur les lepidoptres du Globe, 3 (2), 49 - 60.