Meliaba

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Meliaba
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Calpinae
Genus: Meliaba
Walker, 1859
Species:
M. pelopsalis
Binomial name
Meliaba pelopsalis
Walker, 1859
Synonyms

Generic

  • Ichthyopselapha Aurivillius, 1910

Specific

  • Meliaba insignis (Aurivillius, 1910)

Meliaba is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Meliaba pelopsalis, is known from South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.[1] Both the genus and the species were first described by Francis Walker in 1859.[2][3]

References

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