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