Marimatha

Marimatha
	Female (left) and male Marimatha nigrofi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Subfamily:	Eustrotiinae
Genus:	Marimatha; Walker, [1866]
Synonyms
	Xanthoptera Guenée, 1852 (preocc. Xanthoptera Sodoffsky, 1837); Krugia Möschler, 1890; Thioptera Franclemont, 1950; Flavala Berio, 1966 (unnecessary replacement name for Xanthoptera);

Marimatha is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1866.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Selected species

Marimatha aurifera (Walker, [1858]) southern US to Brazil, Antilles
Marimatha auruda (Schaus, 1898) Brazil (São Paulo)
Marimatha furcata (Walker, [1858]) Brazil
Marimatha intensifica (Dyar, 1914) Panama
Marimatha nigrofimbria (Guenée, 1852) southern and eastern US
Marimatha obliquata (Herrich-Schäffer, 1868) Cuba
Marimatha piscimala Ferris & Lafontaine, 2010 Texas, Arizona, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica
Marimatha quadrata Ferris & Lafontaine, 2010 Texas, Arizona, Mexico
Marimatha rufescens (Hampson, 1910) Brazil (Bahia)
Marimatha squala Ferris & Lafontaine, 2010 Arizona to Costa Rica
Marimatha tripuncta (Möschler, 1890) Puerto Rico, southern Florida, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands, Trinidad

^ Savela, Markku (July 11, 2019). "Marimatha Walker, [1866]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Marimatha". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Marimatha Walker, 1866". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. doi:10.5519/s93616qw. Retrieved June 3, 2020.

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