Marimatha tripuncta Ferris & Lafontaine 2010, comb. n.
Authors/Creators
- 1. , Laramie, United States of America
- 2. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Description
Figs 7, 8, 14, 21
Xanthoptera tripuncta Möschler, 1890:158
Thioptera aurifera of authors, not (Walker, [1858])
Type material. Th ree female syntypes. Puerto Rico. MNHU, Berlin, examined.
Other material examined. Southern Florida; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Puerto Rico; St Croix, Virgin Islands; Trinidad.
Diagnosis. Separated from other species in its North American range by the tuberculate frons, the dark transverse smudge on the DFW, and the deeply curved postmedial line. Some specimens of piscimala from Texas are superficially similar. Male genitalia with large apical cornutus with basal process and several smaller cornuti. Female genitalia with angled diverticulum posteriorly on right side of corpus bursae.
Description. Not distinguishable from Marimatha piscimala except by distribution, DNA, and the genital characters given in the diagnosis.
Distribution and Biology. Caribbean and southern Florida. Flight season late April to mid-October.
Remarks. 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 (Fig. 16).
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- Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.39.424 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/576637 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/F603B326B870850F4C489919FF970720 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/66F92D10-9BCF-4B7A-AAD9-AF6042E8CEA0 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ferris & Lafontaine
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Marimatha
- Species
- tripuncta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- comb. n.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Marimatha tripuncta (Moschler, 1890) sec. Ferris & Lafontaine, 2010
References
- Moschler HB (1890) Die Lepidopteren-Fauna der Insel Portorico. Abhandlungen der Senkenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 16: 70 - 360, 1 plate.
- Walker F (1862) Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, series 3: vol. 1: 70 - 228.
- Kimball CP (1965) The Lepidoptera of Florida - An annotated check list. Florida State Department of Agriculture, Gainesville, Florida, 363 pp.
- Franclemont JG, Todd EL (1983) Noctuidae. In: Hodges RW, Dominick T, Davis DR, Ferguson DC, Franclemont JG, Munroe EG, and Powell JA (1983). Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico. E. W. Classey Ltd. and the Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, London, 120 - 159.
- Heppner J (2003) Arthropods of Florida and neighboring land areas. Volume 17: Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1: Introduction and catalog. Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, Gainesville, 670 pp.