Melese castrena

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Noctuoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola 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: Arctiinae
Tribus: Arctiini
Subtribus: Phaegopterina
Genus: Melese
Species: Melese castrena

Name

Melese castrena Schaus, 1905: 220

Type locality: Brazil, Paraná, Castro.

Type material: USNM Holotype male no. 8602.

Synonyms

• Melesse [sic] chiriquensis; Rothschild, 1910: 31

Primary references

• Schaus, W. 1905 ["1906"]. Descriptions of new South American moths. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 29: 179–345. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Watson, A. 1971. An illustrated Catalog of the Neotropic Arctiinae type in the United States National Museum (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) Part 1. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 50: 1-361. DOI: 10.5479/si.00810282.50.1 Reference page. 
• Watson, A. & Goodger, D.T. 1986. Catalogue of the Neotropical Tiger-moths. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 1: 1–71. Reference page. 
• Vincent, B. & Laguerre, M. 2014. Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Zoosystema 36(2): 137–533. DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1 Full article (PDF). Reference page.