A review of the genus Megalographa Lafontaine and Poole (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Plusiinae) with the description of a new species from Costa Rica

Authors

J. Donald Lafontaine, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and NematodesFollow
J. Bolling Sullivan, Beaufort, NCFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

6-2009

Comments

Published in Insecta Mundi 0077: 1-10 (June 2009). Copyright (c) 2009 J. Donald Lafontaine and J. Bolling Sullivan; published by Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc. Gainesville, FL http://www.centerforsystematicentomology.org/

Abstract

The classification of the genus Megalographa Lafontaine and Poole, 1991, is reviewed and the five known species diagnosed. The genus is essentially restricted to the New World, although one species M. biloba (Stephens) is migratory and has occasionally straggled to western Europe. A new species (Megalographa talamanca Lafontaine and Sullivan) endemic to the Talamanca Mountain Range in Costa Rica is described. Adults and genitalia are illustrated.