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Melipotis

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Melipotis
Melipotis ochrodes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Melipotini
Genus: Melipotis
Hübner, 1818[1]
Synonyms
  • Heliothis Hübner, 1809 (suppressed ICZN 789)
  • Gerespa Walker, 1858
  • Coronta Walker, [1858]

Melipotis is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1818.

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. Forewings with somewhat quadrate apex.[2]

Species

Former species

References

  1. ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Melipotis Hubner 1818". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on January 20, 2019. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  2. ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.