Biology:Marimatha tripuncta
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Short description: Species of moth
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Marimatha |
| Species: | M. tripuncta
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| Binomial name | |
| Marimatha tripuncta (Möschler, 1890)
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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
- Ferris, Clifford; Lafontaine, Donald (March 18, 2010). "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". ZooKeys (39): 117–135. doi:10.3897/zookeys.39.424. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/2172/.
- "931287.00 – 9045 – Marimatha tripuncta – (Möschler, 1890)". Mississippi State University. http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=9045.
- Bentley, Tom (June 19, 2019). "Species Marimatha tripuncta - Hodges#9045". https://bugguide.net/node/view/265963.
Wikidata ☰ Q6763675 entry
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