Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Noctuidae Scientific name Marimatha tripuncta | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Marimatha Rank Species | |
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
References
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