Biology:Marimatha tripuncta

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Short description: Species of moth

Marimatha tripuncta
Marimatha tripuncta male (right) female (left).JPG
Female (left) and male
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Marimatha
Species:
M. tripuncta
Binomial name
Marimatha tripuncta
(Möschler, 1890)
Synonyms
  • Xanthoptera tripuncta Möschler, 1890
  • Thioptera aurifera of authors, not (Walker, [1858])

Marimatha tripuncta is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Heinrich Benno Möschler in 1890. It is found in the Caribbean and southern Florida.

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

Wikidata ☰ Q6763675 entry