Megalota fallax ( Meyrick, 1909 )

Pathania, Prakash C., Das, Apurva & Chandra, Kailash, 2020, Catalogue of Tortricidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Tortricoidea) of India, Zootaxa 4757 (1), pp. 1-95 : 66

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4757.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3807002
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scientific name	Megalota fallax ( Meyrick, 1909 )
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370. Megalota fallax ( Meyrick, 1909) View in CoL

Polychrosis fallax Meyrick, 1909 View in CoL ; J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 19: 587.

TL: India, Assam, Khasi Hills [now in Meghalaya].

Distribution: India (Kerala; Meghalaya; Tamil Nadu); Thailand; Vietnam (Pinkew 2007, Nedoshivina 2013).

Host: Larvae are reported to feed Croton laevigatus (Euphorbiaceae) ( Robinson et al. 2001).

Illustrations: Adult ( Nedoshivina 2013: 226) and genitalia ( Clarke 1958: 467; Diakonoff 1973: 633).

References

Clarke, J. F. G. (1958) Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Mus. (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick. Vol. 3. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 600 pp.

Diakonoff, A. (1973) The South Asiatic Olethreutini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Zoologische Monographieen van het Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, 1, 1 - 699.

Meyrick, E. (1909) Descriptions of Indian Microlepidoptera,. X. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 19, 582 - 607.

Nedoshivina, S. V. (2013) Lepidoptera Heterocera of Vietnam. Family Tortricidae. Ulyanovsk, 240 pp., 18 pls. [in Russian]

Robinson, G. S., Ackery, P. R., Kitching, I. J., Beccaloni, G. W. & Hernandez, L. M. (2001) Hostplants of the moth and butterfly caterpillars of the Oriental Region. The Natural History Museum, London, 722 pp.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
SubOrder	Glossata
InfraOrder	Heteroneura
SuperFamily	Tortricoidea
Family	Tortricidae
SubFamily	Olethreutinae
Tribe	Olethreutini
Genus	Megalota