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Meganola phylla

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Species of moth

Meganola phylla

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Nolidae
Genus:	Meganola
Species:	M. phylla
Binomial name
*Meganola phylla* (Dyar, 1898)
Synonyms
Nola phylla Dyar, 1898

Meganola phylla, the coastal plain meganola moth, is a moth of the family Nolidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

The wingspan is 18–24 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from January to October, but are mainly found between April and August.

The larvae feed on Quercus species.

Taxonomy

It was previously listed as a subspecies or even colour variant of Meganola minuscula.

References

Taxon identifiers
Meganola phylla	Wikidata: Q19597843 BAMONA: Meganola-phylla BOLD: 16467 BugGuide: 343917 GBIF: 9532853 iNaturalist: 332250 ITIS: 939475 LepIndex: 35530 MONA: 8983.1 NatureServe: 2.858641 NCBI: 655046 Observation.org: 951881

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