Marimatha tripuncta
Marimatha tripuncta is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Caribbean and southern Florida.
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| Marimatha tripuncta male (right) female (left) | |
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| Species: | M. tripuncta |
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Adults are on wing from late April to mid-October.
Taxonomy
This species was tentatively identified in Florida as Thioptera [=Marimatha] aurifera (Walker, 1862) by Kimball (1965) and was listed as T. aurifera by Franclemont and Todd (1983) and Heppner (2003). Marimatha aurifera is a South American species that lacks a frontal tubercle and has very different genitalia
External links
- Review of the North American species of Marimatha Walker with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Eustrotiinae) and the description of Pseudomarimatha flava (Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Elaphriini), a new genus and species confused with Marimatha
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