Melipotis

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia:Erebidae
Subfamilia: Erebinae
Tribus: Melipotini
Genus: Melipotis
Species: M. acontioides – M. agrotoides – M. ankara – M. cellaris – M. contorta – M. famelica – M. fasciolaris – M. indomita – M. januaris – M. jucunda – M. nigrobasis – M. novanda – M. perpendicularis – M. prolata – M. walkeri – M. yerburyi
Name

Melipotis Hübner, 1818

Type species: Melipotis jucunda Hübner, 1818
References
Additional references

Butler, A.G. 1892. Revision of the noctuid genus Melipotis, Hübner, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10(6): 315-327. Reference page.
Lafontaine, J.D. & Schmidt, B.C. 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Zookeys 40: 1–239. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.40.414 Reference page.

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.[2]
Species

Melipotis abrupta (Snellen, 1887)
Melipotis acontioides (Guenée, 1852)
Melipotis agrotoides (Walker, 1858)
Melipotis albiterminalis (Draudt & Gaede, 1944)
Melipotis asinus Dognin, 1912
Melipotis brunnearis (Guenée, 1852)
Melipotis calamioides (Snellen, 1887)
Melipotis cellaris (Guenée, 1852)
Melipotis comprehendens (Walker, 1858)
Melipotis contorta (Guenée, 1852)
Melipotis decreta (Walker, 1858)
Melipotis dispar (Kohler, 1979)
Melipotis euryphaea (Hampson, 1926)
Melipotis evelina (Butler, 1878)
Melipotis famelica (Guenée, 1852)
Melipotis fasciolaris (Hübner, [1831])
Melipotis fuscifusata (Hampson, 1926)
Melipotis goniosema (Hampson, 1926)
Melipotis guanicana Schaus, 1940
Melipotis gubernata (Walker, 1858)
Melipotis harrisoni Schaus, 1923
Melipotis imparallela (Guenée, 1852)
Melipotis indomita (Walker, 1858)
Melipotis januaris (Guenée, 1852)
Melipotis jucunda (Hübner, 1818)
Melipotis leucomelana (Herrich-Schäffer, 1868)
Melipotis lucigera (Walker, 1858)
Melipotis mesoleuca (Walker, 1869)
Melipotis nigrobasis (Guenée, 1852)
Melipotis novanda (Guenée, 1852) (=Melipotis agrotipennis (Harvey, 1875))
Melipotis obliquivia (Hampson, 1926)
Melipotis ochrodes (Guenée, 1852)
Melipotis perpendicularis (Guenée, 1852)
Melipotis prolata (Walker, 1858)
Melipotis prunescens (Hampson, 1926)
Melipotis punctifinis (Hampson, 1926)
Melipotis recipiens (Walker, 1858)
Melipotis roseata (Draudt & Gaede, 1944)
Melipotis separata (Walker, 1858)
Melipotis strigifera (Walker, 1858)
Melipotis trujillensis Dognin, 1912
Melipotis tucumanensis Dognin, 1912
Melipotis walkeri Butler, 1892

Former species

Melipotis albisigna (Wileman & South, 1920)
Melipotis amphix (Cramer, [1777])
Melipotis diascota (Hampson, 1916)
Melipotis grandidieri (Viette, 1968)
Melipotis melanoschista (Meyrick, 1897)
Melipotis metaleuca (Hampson, 1896)
Melipotis mimica (Gaede, 1939)
Melipotis phaeocrossa (Turner, 1932)
Melipotis unilinea (Swinhoe, 1885)
Melipotis voeltzkowi (Viette, 1965)

References

Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Melipotis Hubner 1818". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on January 20, 2019. Retrieved January 20, 2019.

Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Savela, Markku. "Melipotis Hübner, 1818". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Noctuidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.