Meliaba
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Calpinae |
| Genus: | Walker, 1859 |
| Species: | M. pelopsalis
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| Meliaba pelopsalis Walker, 1859
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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.[1] Both the genus and the species were first described by Francis Walker in 1859.[2][3]
References
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Meliaba pelopsalis Walker, 1859". Afromoths. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Meliaba". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
- ^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Meliaba Walker, 1859". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved January 6, 2020.