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Melipotis
Sign in to saveMelipotis is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1818.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 112
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Erebidae
- Collections
- ECOSUR
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Starr 030624-0024 Prosopis pallida.jpg
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- genus
- taxon name
- Melipotis
- topic's main category
- Category:Melipotis
- Commons category
- Melipotis
- taxonomic type
- Melipotis jucunda
- has host
- Carthamus tinctorius
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Melipotis is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1818.
==Description== Palpi with second joint obliquely upturned and reaching vertex of head, and long porrect third joint. Antennae with short fasciculated cilia in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Mid and hind tibia with medial and terminal tufts of long spinous hairs. Forewings with somewhat quadrate apex.
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