Marimatha tripuncta

Marimatha tripuncta
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)
Synonyms
  • Xanthoptera tripuncta Möschler, 1890
  • Thioptera aurifera of authors, not (Walker, [1858])

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

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