Melipotis
| Melipotis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Tribe: | Melipotini |
| Genus: | Melipotis Hübner, 1818[1] |
| Synonyms | |
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Description
Palpi with second joint obliquely upturned and reaching vertex of head, and long porrect third joint. Antennae with short fasciculated cilia in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Mid and hind tibia with medial and terminal tufts of long spinous hairs. Fore wings with somewhat quadrate apex.[2]
Species
- Melipotis abrupta (Snellen, 1887)
- Melipotis acontioides (Guenée, 1852)
- Melipotis agrotoides (Walker, 1858)
- Melipotis albiterminalis (Draudt & Gaede, 1944)
- Melipotis asinus Dognin, 1912
- Melipotis brunnearis (Guenee, 1852)
- Melipotis calamioides (Snellen, 1887)
- Melipotis cellaris (Guenée, 1852)
- Melipotis comprehendens (Walker, 1858)
- Melipotis contorta (Guenée, 1852)
- Melipotis decreta (Walker, 1858)
- Melipotis dispar (Kohler, 1979)
- Melipotis euryphaea (Hampson, 1926)
- Melipotis evelina (Butler, 1878)
- Melipotis famelica (Guenée, 1852)
- Melipotis fasciolaris (Hübner, [1831])
- Melipotis fuscifusata (Hampson, 1926)
- Melipotis goniosema (Hampson, 1926)
- Melipotis guanicana Schaus, 1940
- Melipotis gubernata (Walker, 1858)
- Melipotis harrisoni Schaus, 1923
- Melipotis imparallela (Guenee, 1852)
- Melipotis indomita (Walker, 1858)
- Melipotis januaris (Guenée, 1852)
- Melipotis jucunda (Hübner, 1818)
- Melipotis leucomelana (Herrich-Schaffer, 1868)
- Melipotis lucigera (Walker, 1858)
- Melipotis mesoleuca (Walker, 1869)
- Melipotis nigrobasis (Guenée, 1852)
- Melipotis novanda (Guenée, 1852) (=Melipotis agrotipennis (Harvey, 1875))
- Melipotis obliquivia (Hampson, 1926)
- Melipotis ochrodes (Guenée, 1852)
- Melipotis perpendicularis (Guenée, 1852)
- Melipotis prolata (Walker, 1858)
- Melipotis prunescens (Hampson, 1926)
- Melipotis punctifinis (Hampson, 1926)
- Melipotis recipiens (Walker, 1858)
- Melipotis roseata (Draudt & Gaede, 1944)
- Melipotis separata (Walker, 1858)
- Melipotis strigifera (Walker, 1858)
- Melipotis trujillensis Dognin, 1912
- Melipotis tucumanensis Dognin, 1912
- Melipotis walkeri Butler, 1892
Former species
- Melipotis albisigna (Wileman & South, 1920)
- Melipotis amphix (Cramer, [1777])
- Melipotis diascota (Hampson, 1916)
- Melipotis grandidieri (Viette, 1968)
- Melipotis melanoschista (Meyrick, 1897)
- Melipotis metaleuca (Hampson, 1896)
- Melipotis mimica (Gaede, 1939)
- Melipotis phaeocrossa (Turner, 1932)
- Melipotis unilinea (Swinhoe, 1885)
- Melipotis voeltzkowi (Viette, 1965)
References
- ↑ taxapad.com
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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