Genus Leucogonia Hampson, 1908

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leucogonia Hampson, G.F. 1908. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 7 xv 709 pp., 1 folded page. [7 [index]] [Available, but without included species until Hampson, 1910: 446.].

  Type species:

   Zalissa ekeikei Bethune-Baker, 1906 by subsequent designation, see Hampson, G.F. 1910. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 9 xv 552 pp., 1 folded page. [446].
• Metaxanthiella Collins, R.J. 1962. Some notes on Hampson's generic names (Lepidoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13 5: 121-126 [54, 125] [Nye (1975) stated: "Metaxanthiella was proposed as the objective replacement name for Metaxanthia Hampson, 1908."].

  Type species:

   Britha cosmopis Lower, 1897 by subsequent monotypy.
• Metaxanthia Hampson, G.F. 1908. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 7 xv 709 pp., 1 folded page. [9 [index]] [junior homonym; junior homonym of Metaxanthia Druce, 1897 (Arctiidae)].

  Type species:

   Britha cosmopis Lower, 1897 by subsequent designation, see Hampson, G.F. 1910. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 9 xv 552 pp., 1 folded page. [448].

Notes

Nye (1975) stated: "Metaxanthiella was proposed as the objective replacement name for Metaxanthia Hampson, 1908."

History of changes