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Meliaba

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

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Vinony's link graph records 4 inbound references to Meliaba, and connects out to South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania.

Vinony files it under Calpinae, LepIndex ID same as Wikidata and Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist).

Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

Unreal Snout

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyErebidae
Observations27

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Wikidata facts

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taxon
Parent taxon
Noctuidae
Image
Aurevilius, 1910. Pl.2-05-Meliaba insignis (Aurivillius 1910).JPG
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taxon name
Meliaba
taxon rank
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Category:Meliaba
Commons category
Meliaba
taxonomic type
Meliaba pelopsalis
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Meliaba is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Meliaba pelopsalis, is known from South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Both the genus and the species were first described by Francis Walker in 1859.

==References==

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