Taxonomic Information
Meganola Dyar, 1898 species known from the Indian subcontinent:
Meganola argentescens (Hampson, 1895) (Pisara). India (Sikkim); Nepal.
Meganola ascripta (Hampson, 1894) (Selca). India (Nagaland, N.E. Himalaya, Kerala, Assam, Meghalaya); Nepal.
Meganola brunellus (Hampson, 1893)( Rhynchopalpus). India: Nagaland, Sikkim, Assam; Sri Lanka.
Meganola cuneifera (Walker, 1862) (Melia). India: Sikkim, NE Himalaya; Nepal.
Meganola flexuosa (Poujade, 1886) (Nola). India: Sikkim; Nepal.
Meganola major (Hampson, 1891) (Nola). India: Nilgiris, Himachal Pradesh, NW Himalaya; Sri Lanka; Nepal; Myanmar.
Meganola margalla László, Ronkay and Ronkay, 2014. India: Uttar Pradesh; Nepal.
Meganola mediofusca László, Ronkay & Witt, 2007. Nepal.
Meganola nitida (Hampson, 1894)( Selca). India: West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, NW Himalaya, Sikkim, Nagaland, West Bengal.
Meganola ruficostata (Hampson, 1896) (Selca). India: Sikkim; Nepal; Bhutan.
Meganola scripta (Moore, 1888) (Roeselia). India: Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal; Pakistan.
Meganola scriptoides Holloway, 2003. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Meganola strigivena Hampson, 1894 (Selca). India: Sikkim; Nepal.
Meganola suffusata (Wileman & West, 1929) (Nola). India: Arunachal Pradesh; Myanmar.
Meganola tarka László, Ronkay and Witt, 2010. India: Assam.
Meganola tomkovichi László, Ronkay and Ronkay, 2014. India: Odisha; Sri Lanka.
Meganola triangulalis (Leech, 1888[1889]) (Nola). India: Sikkim, Mizoram, NE Himalaya.
Meganola tenebrosa (Hampson, 1896) (Nola). India; Bhutan; Nepal.
Meganola zirkalmashka László, Ronkay and Ronkay, 2014. India: Sikkim; East Nepal.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- OD : Meganola tomkovichi László, Ronkay & Ronkay, 2014, In: László, G.M., Ronkay, G. and Ronkay, L., 2014. New Meganola Dyar, 1898 taxa from South East Asia (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Nolidae, Nolini). Fibigeriana Supplement. Book series of Taxonomy and Faunistics, 2, pp.31-48. pg. 37, Pl. 8, fig 7-8.
- Joshi, R., Singh, N. and Laszlo, G.M., 2019. An updated Checklist of subfamily Nolinae (Lepidoptera, Nolidae) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 119(3), pp.263-281.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/17274762
Note: Provisionally identified (as cf.), as difficult to separate from Nanola lesarbena (László, Ronkay & Ronkay, 2014) without examining genitalia.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Meganola tomkovichi László, Ronkay & Ronkay, 2014 – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/meganola-tomkovichi, accessed 2025/11/03.