Taxonomic Information
List of 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, N.E. Himalaya); Nepal.
Meganola flexuosa (Poujade, 1886) (Nola). India (Sikkim); Nepal.
Meganola major major (Hampson, 1891) (Nola). India (Nilgiris); Sri Lanka; Nepal; Myanmar.
Meganola major phaea (Hampson, 1900) (Nola). India (Himachal Pradesh, N.W. Himalaya).
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, Manipur, N.W. Himalaya, Sikkim, Nagaland, West Bengal)
Meganola ruficostata (Hampson, 1896) (Selca). India (Sikkim, India); 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, N.E. 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
Meganola nitida -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
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| Total | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
- OD: Selca nitida Hampson, 1894. Fauna Br. India (Moths) 2: 147; TL: Manipur, Máo. Text at https://archive.org/details/moths02hamp/page/147/mode/1up?view=theater
- Roeselia nitida; Hampson, 1900, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 2: 58, pl. 19, f. 27. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid2brituoft/page/58/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid13brit/page/n100/mode/2up?view=theater
- Rhynchopalpus nitida Hampson; Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pg. 94, Pl. 140/29.
- László, G.M., Ronkay, G. & Witt, T.J. 2007. New species of the Meganola nitida (Hampson, 1894) species group (Lepidoptera: Nolidae). Entomofauna, 28 (14), 157–172. Fig. 1-4 for nitida.
- László, G. 2016. A taxonomic and zoogeographical survey of the Meganola Dyar, 1898 generic complex (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Nolinae) based on the Palaearctic and Oriental species PhD Thesis : 1-125, pl. 1-6. Fig. 14 for Meganola nitida.
- 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.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Meganola nitida (Hampson, 1894) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.82. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/meganola-nitida, accessed 2025/01/22.