Biology:Meganola phylla
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Short description: Species of moth
| Meganola phylla | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Nolidae |
| Genus: | Meganola |
| Species: | M. phylla
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| Binomial name | |
| Meganola phylla (Dyar, 1898)
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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.[1]
The larvae feed on Quercus species.
Taxonomy
It was previously listed as a subspecies or even colour variant of Meganola minuscula.[2]
References
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Wikidata ☰ Q19597843 entry
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