Meganola xantholeuca Hacker 2012

Meganola xantholeuca Hacker, 2012 (Figs 29���30, 97) Meganola xantholeuca Hacker, 2012, Esperiana 17: 498. Type locality: Ivory Coast, Danane. Holotype, ♂ (ZSM). Material examined. Ivory Coast. 2 ♀, 1171m, Mt. Tonkoui Peak, 07��27���15.2���N, 07��38���12.5���W, 1���8.XI.2015, Light Trap, Aristophanous, M., Moretto, P. & Ruzzier, E. leg., ANHRT:2017.16, slide Nos: LGNA 86 ♀, LGNA 253 ♀. Liberia . 1 ♀, 883m, Lofa County, Wologizi Mts, Ridge Camp 2, 8��07���20.79���N, 9��56���50.75���W, 22��� 31.xi.2018, Cold Cathode UV Light Trap (8W), S��fi��n, Sz., Simonics, G. leg. ANHRT:2018.43, slide No.: LGNA 977 (ANHRT). Remark. M. xantholeuca was considered to be a sister species of M. cretacea (Hampson, 1914) by Hacker et al. (2012). The taxonomy of M. cretacea has been clarified by L��szl�� (2020) and the species has been transferred to the genus Ezishnola L��szl��, Ronkay & Witt, 2010. The former presumption namely that M. xantholeuca is related to E. cretacea was due to a misidentification of the latter taxon by Hacker et al. (2012) (L��szl�� 2020). Distribution. Ivory Coast and Nigeria (Hacker et al. 2012). New record for Liberia.
Published as part of L��szl��, Gyula M., 2020, Review of the genus Meganola Dyar, 1898 of Ivory Coast and adjacent areas with descriptions of 5 new species and several taxonomic updates (Lepidoptera Nolidae, Nolinae) - Taxonomic studies on West African Nolinae I., pp. 151-182 in Zootaxa 4853 (2) on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4853.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4410542
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