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Species Marimatha tripuncta - Hodges#9045

Marimatha tripuncta - Hodges#9045 - Marimatha tripuncta - female

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Eustrotiinae

Genus Marimatha

Species tripuncta (Marimatha tripuncta - Hodges#9045)

Hodges Number

9045

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Marimatha tripuncta (Möschler, 1890) (1)

Replaces Thioptera aurifera (Möschler, 1890)

Xanthoptera tripuncta Möschler, 1890

Phylogenetic sequence # 931287 (2)

Numbers

Ferris & LaFontaine (2010) listed five species in the genus for America north of Mexico. (1)

Identification

Range

TX, FL, LA, AZ, Caribbean

1 specimen DNA barcoded from TX, BOLD sample 09BBLEP-02632.

Reported from LA by Vernon A. Brou, Jr.

Type locality: Dominican Republic

Season

adults fly April to mid October. (1)

Print References

Möschler, H.B., 1890. Die Lepidopteren-Fauna der Insel Portorico. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 16(1): 158.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	Review of the North American species of Marimatha (Walker) with descriptions of three new species ... Clifford D. Ferris, J. Donald LaFontaine. 2010. ZooKeys 39: 117-135.

2.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Tom Bentley on 14 April, 2009 - 8:33am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, Chris Grinter, Randy Hardy, JoAnneRusso
Last updated 19 November, 2022 - 4:02pm

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