| Higher taxa: | 
                
                Erebidae (family)/ 
                
                
                Lymantriinae (subfamily)/ 
                
                
                
                
                Melgona (genus)/ 
                
                
                
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                | Status: | Accepted
                
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                | Authorship: | Nye, 1980 | 
                | Citation: | Melgona Nye nom. n. | 
                
                    | Taxon remarks: | Type species: Coniortodes conia Collenette, 1955. Annals and Magazine of natural History (12), 8: 644; pl. 16, fig. 13. By original designation and monotypy. | 
                
                
                    | Publication: | Watson A., Fletcher D. S. & Nye I. W. B. 1980. Noctuoidea (part): Arctiidae, Cocytiidae, Ctenuchidae, Dilobidae, Dioptidae, Lymantriidae, Notodontidae, Strepsimanidae, Thaumetopoeidae, Thyretidae. – In: Nye I. W. B. (ed.), The generic names of moths of the world. Volume 2. | 
                    | Journal: | — | 
                    | Volume: | 2 | 
                    | Issue: |  | 
                    | Pagination: | 113 |