Genus Nomophila Hübner, 1825

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nomophila Hübner, J. 1825. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmetterlinge [sic]. Augsburg (1816–[1825]) 431 pp. [368].

  Type species:

   Pyralis hybridalis Hübner, 1796 by subsequent designation, see Westwood, J.O. 1840. An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects; founded on the natural habits and corresponding organization of the different families. London Vol. 2 (Synopsis of the genera of the British insects.) 158 pp. [113].
• Stenopteryx Guenée, 1845.

  Type species:

   Pyralis hybridalis Hübner, 1796 by monotypy.
• Macronomeutis Meyrick, 1936.

  Type species:

   Macronomeutis heterospila Meyrick, 1936 by monotypy.

General References

Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [191] (Note #273. Nomophila Hübner, [1825]. The placement [adopted in the Checklist] in the Pyraustrinae, tribe Spilomelini, [was] adapted from Munroe (1983). Kusnetsov and Stekolnikov (1979) proposed the new tribe Nomophilini for this genus)

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