Marimatha tripuncta
| Marimatha tripuncta | |
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| Marimatha tripuncta male (right) female (left) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Marimatha |
| Species: | M. tripuncta |
| Binomial name | |
| Marimatha tripuncta (Möschler, 1890) | |
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Marimatha tripuncta is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the Caribbean and southern Florida.
Adults are on wing from late April to mid-October.
Taxonomy
This species was tentatively identified in Florida as Thioptera [=Marimatha] aurifera (Walker, 1862) by Kimball (1965) and was listed as T. aurifera by Franclemont and Todd (1983) and Heppner (2003). Marimatha aurifera is a South American species that lacks a frontal tubercle and has very different genitalia
External links
- Review of the North American species of Marimatha Walker with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Eustrotiinae) and the description of Pseudomarimatha flava (Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Elaphriini), a new genus and species confused with Marimatha
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