A review of the genus Megalographa Lafontaine and Poole (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Plusiinae) with the description of a new species from Costa Rica Author Lafontaine, J. Donald Author Sullivan, J. Bolling text Insecta Mundi 2009 2009-06-30 2009 77 1 10 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.5352574 1942-1354 5352574 Megalographa culminicola Barbut and Piñas ( Figure 3, 4 ) Megalographa culminicola Barbut and Piñas 2007: 19 . Holotype : male, MNHN, Paris [photographs examined]; Type locality : Carchi , Impuera , Ecuador . Diagnosis . This species is an anomaly. The forewing pattern is unlike any other species of Megalographa , whereas the genitalia appear to be indistinguishable from those of M. agualaniata . The species can easily be recognized within Megalographa by the elongated, narrow, tapering stigma, not the usually bilobed or two-lobed stigma of the other species in the genus. The sexes are similar. The male genitalia are like those of M. agualaniata ( Fig. 10 ), but the uncus is slightly stouter and the mesial bulge in the vesica is positioned closer to the base because the basal part of the vesica is much shorter in M. culminicola . Distribution and Habitat . Megalographa culminicola occurs in the páramo zone, 3300–3940 m , high in the Andes in Ecuador and northern Peru .