Megalota, Diakonoff, 1966

Brown, John W., 2009, The discovery of Megalota in the Neotropics, with a revision of the New World species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutini), Zootaxa 2279 (1), pp. 1-50 : 6

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2279.1.1

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scientific name

Megalota
status

 

Key to the species groups of Megalota based on female genitalia

1. Signum in the form of a parallel-sided, tongue- or fin-shaped sclerite ( Figs. 55-63); colliculum comprising about half of ductus bursae ........................................................................................................................B. delphinosema group

- Signum stellate or comblike ( Figs. 49-54); colliculum comprising one-third or less of ductus bursae ........................ ........................................................................................................................................................ A. submicans group 1

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Tortricidae