| Higher taxa: | Nolidae (family)/ Collomeninae (subfamily)/ Egelesta (genus)/ |
| Status: | Synonym , the accepted name is Plotheia |
| Authorship: | Walker, 1858 |
| Citation: | Genus Egelesta |
| Taxon remarks: | Type species: Egelesta rudivitta Walker, 1858. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XV.– Noctuidae: 1748. By monotypy. Included by Poole (1989) as a junior synonym of Plotheia Walker, 1858. |
| Publication: | Walker F. 1858d. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XV.– Noctuidae. |
| Journal: | — |
| Volume: | 15 |
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| Pagination: | 1747 |
| URL: | https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39337760 |