Male

Puerto-Rico, Naguabo, Sierra de Luquillo, Pico del Oeste, 12-VIII-85

Female

Guadeloupe, Morne à Louis, 23-XII-84

Melipotis januaris (Guenée, 1852)

Noctuidae Ophiderinae

Synonyms

Melipotis russaris (Guenée)
Melipotis excavans (Walker)
Melipotis subtilis (Walker)
Melipotis parcicolor (Herrich-Schäffer)
Melipotis rectifascia (Herrich-Schäffer)
Melipotis surinamensis (Möschler)
Melipotis nebulosa (Maassen)

Biology and distribution

A fairly common species everywhere in Guadeloupe and Martinique (type specimen of M. russaris).
St-Martin.

St-Kitts, Montserrat, Dominica, St-Lucia, St-Vincent, Grenada.
Throughout the Greater Antilles (Cuba, type specimens of M. parcicolor and M. rectifascia ; Hispaniola, type specimens of M. januaris, M. excavans and M. subtilis).

Florida, and from Mexico to Paraguay.

Legend

Male genitalia (JPG 73 Kb).
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