Meliaba

Short description: Genus of moths

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)

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

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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