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Megalonycta

Number: 17320.0
Author: Viette
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Megalonycta
Journal: Bull. Soc. ent. Fr.
Year: 1965
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 86
Ref Id: 11499.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Hadeninae
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Volume: 70
Type Country: MADAGASCAR
Type Depository: (BMNH, London)
Type Lectotyped: Viette, 1965, Faune Madagascar 20 (1): 482
Type Locality: Diego Suarez
Types: Lectotype - male
Type Des: by original designation
Type Sp Author: Rothschild
Type Sp Journal: Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.
Type Sp Page: 312
Type Sp Series: (9)
Type Sp Volume: 14
Type Sp Year: 1924
Type Sp Ref Id: 11067.0
Type Sp Genus: Acronycta
Type Sp: mediovitta
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctuidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=MEGALONYCTA']
Memo: Poole (1989) included MEGALONYCTA in the subfamily AMPHIPYRINAE, subsequently restricted to the genus AMPHIPYRA by Kitching & Rawlins, in Kristensen (1999). Other genera formerly treated in the subfamily AMPHIPYRINAE are treated as HADENINAE by Kitching & Rawlins (loc. cit.).

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