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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Melipotini » Melipotis » Melipotis famelica - Hodges#8604 (Melipotis famelica)

Species Melipotis famelica - Hodges#8604

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

brown and white butterfly? - Melipotis famelica

Melipotis famelica - Hodges#8604 - Melipotis famelica

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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 Erebidae

Subfamily Erebinae

Tribe Melipotini

Genus Melipotis

Species famelica (Melipotis famelica - Hodges#8604)

Hodges Number

8604

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Melipotis famelica (Guenée)

Bolina bivittata Walker, [1858](1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930875

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed thirteen species of the genus Melipotis in America north of Mexico.(2)

Size

Wingspan about 42 mm.

Range

Southern United States, Antilles, south to Venezuela, including Bermuda (Ferguson et al. 1991)

Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.

Season

Year round in Florida

May to November in Texas

Food

Larval host is Lysiloma latisiliquum (Fabaceae) - USDA Plants Database

Print References

Poole, R.W. 1989. Noctuidae: Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118). p. 643.(1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

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 Maury J. Heiman on 20 August, 2012 - 3:27pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 6 January, 2014 - 3:07pm

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