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Meliaba
Sign in to saveMeliaba is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Meliaba pelopsalis, is known from South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Both the genus and the species were first described by Francis Walker in 1859.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 4 inbound references to Meliaba, and connects out to South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania.
Vinony files it under Calpinae, LepIndex ID same as Wikidata and Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist).
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Unreal Snout
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyErebidae
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Noctuidae
- Image
- Aurevilius, 1910. Pl.2-05-Meliaba insignis (Aurivillius 1910).JPG
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- taxon name
- Meliaba
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Meliaba
- Commons category
- Meliaba
- taxonomic type
- Meliaba pelopsalis
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Encyclopedic overview
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Meliaba is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Meliaba pelopsalis, is known from South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Both the genus and the species were first described by Francis Walker in 1859.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meliaba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.