Nolidae
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Larval food items include:
Quercus. Malus domestica. Clethra. Hamamelis
Larval food habits description:
Hosts for Meganola: oak and apple; Nola: oak, witch hazel, Clethra, and grasses.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:9064
Specimens with Sequences:8215
Specimens with Barcodes:7477
Species:1131
Species With Barcodes:1029
Public Records:3264
Public Species:472
Public BINs:455
Nolidae is a family of moths with about 1,400 described species worldwide. They are mostly small with dull coloration, the main distinguishing feature being a silk cocoon with a vertical exit slit. The group is sometimes known as tuft moths after the tufts of raised scales on the forewings of two subfamilies, Nolinae and Collomeninae.[1] The larvae also tend to have muted colors and tufts of short hairs.
Formerly, this group was included in the Noctuidae.
Genera incertae sedis[edit]
The following nolid genera have not been assigned to a subfamily yet:
References[edit]
- ^ Zahiri, R., Lafontaine, J. D., Holloway, J. D., Kitching, I. J., Schmidt, B. C., Kaila, L. and Wahlberg, N. (2013). "Major lineages of Nolidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) elucidated by molecular phylogenetics". Cladistics. doi:10.1111/cla.12001. Missing or empty
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- Chinery, Michael (1986): Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe (Reprinted 1991)
- Skinner, Bernard (1984): Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles
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Geographic Range:
Nearctic, Palearctic, Oriental, Ethiopian, Neotropical, Australian
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Texture:
ridged
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Number of stemmata:
from 6
Larval head description:
Hypognathaous, semihypognathous, have primary setae only. Frontoclypeus as wide as high, extends 1/2 to 3/4 to the epicranial notch. 6 stemmata, 1-4 evenly spaced semi-circle, 5 separated from 1-4, 6 may be close to 4 (Stehr, 1987)
Secondary setae:
present
Body setae on verrucae:
present
Larval body description:
Tufts of hair from warts. Hooks are unordinal. Mature larva 20 mm or less.
Larval thorax description:
14 legs. T1 shield poorly to moderately defined. Verrucae conspicuous, sometimes extended as flashy lobes. Verrucae on T1 are D, SD, L and SV. Verrucae on T2 and T3 are D, SD, L and SV. Ventral T1 gland present or absent. (Stehr, 1987)
Pairs of thoracic legs:
from 3
Larval abdomen description:
Wart iv obsolete
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Pupa description:
Boat-shaped cocoon. Vertical, anterior exit slit (See Kitching and Rawlins 1998; fig 19.17X-Y). Two-walled construction (McFarland 1980). Labial palpi well developed, paraclypeal pieces are large (Packard, 1895). End of abdomen is rounded and unarmed; adaptation for its enclosure in a dense cocoon (Packard, 1895).
Pupal tergal spines:
absent
Spines as modified cremaster:
absent
Cremaster:
absent
Cocoon:
present
Cocoon description:
Terminal segment is rounded, with beadin or longitudinal ridges on the anterior margin (Hinton 1948; Gardner 1948b). Eligminae has elongate-ovoid shape, unlike other nolids.
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Adult abdomen description:
Tymbal organs present and extremely diverse, usually with corrugations.
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Scale tufts:
present, absent
Epiphysis:
present
Adult thorax description:
Tegulae and patagia of nolids easily detached. Feature not seen in other noctuoids. Underlying mechanism is not understood. Male Nolidae elongate ("bar-shaped") retinaculum, similar to Arctiidae. Tympanal organs present in metathorax. Scale tufts on forewing (mainly Nolinae, Sarrothripinae, Bleninae and Collomeninae). The hood is not well developed.
Forelegs:
modified
Number of tibial spurs midleg:
from 2
Leg description:
Foreleg with tibial epiphysis.
Wing venation??description:
The fore wing has all veins developed, one or two radial branches are lost. The radial system can be distorted in the male. Hind wing missing vein M3, Sc is briefly fused with cell.
Forewing cell veins:
forked
Forewing anal vein notation:
1 anal vein, 1B
Hindwing anal vein notation:
1A+1B
Forewing description:
Lack tubular vein 1c. Discal cell lacks tubular media (M) vein. Sc and R fused more than half of length of cell.
Hindwing description:
Lack tubular vein 1c.
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