1. Falter

2. Diagnosis

1-3: ♀, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

2.1. Original description

1: Guenée (1852: 149) [from copyright-free scan at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Xylomyges sunia Guenée, 1852 [original combination]

3.2. Synonyms

• Xylina esula Druce, 1889 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Neogalea braziliensis Hampson, 1906 [subspecies according to funet.fi]
• Neogalea esula longfieldae Hayes, 1975 [subspecies according to funet.fi]

3.3. Faunistics

Becker (2021: 49) studied material from Mexico, the USA (Hawaii), Cuba, British Virgin Islands, Ecuador, and Brazil. Also, he mentions other countries where the species is distributed: Argentina, Australia (introduced), New Caledonia (introduced), South Africa (introduced). “The South African introduction was apparently not successful (BAARS, 2003).”

Author: Jürgen Rodeland)

3.4. Literature

• Becker, V. O. (2021): The New World Ocnonemidinae genus Neogalea Hampson, 1906 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). — SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 49 (193): 47-54. [PDF auf redalyc.org]
• Original description: Guenée (1852): Noctuélites 1. = Boisduval & Guenée (1852): Histoire naturelle des insectes. Species général des lépidoptères 5: I-XCVI, 1-407. Paris (Roret).