Meliaba

Meliaba
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
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);

Short description: Genus of moths

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

↑ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2019). "Meliaba pelopsalis Walker, 1859". http://www.afromoths.net/species_by_code/MELIPELO. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Meliaba". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=286379.
↑ Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Meliaba Walker, 1859". Natural History Museum, London. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=17492.0. Retrieved January 6, 2020.

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[1] De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2019). "Meliaba pelopsalis Walker, 1859". http://www.afromoths.net/species_by_code/MELIPELO. Retrieved January 6, 2020.

[2] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Meliaba". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=286379.

[3] Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Meliaba Walker, 1859". Natural History Museum, London. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=17492.0. Retrieved January 6, 2020.

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Meliaba

Topic: Biology

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