Melese Walker, 1854

Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), Zoosystema 36 (2), pp. 137-533 : 231

Genus Melese Walker, 1854

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Melese Walker, 1854b: 491 .

Malabus Walker, 1855a: 716 . — Type species: Malabus incertus Walker, 1855 , by original designation.

Heteromelese Zikan & Zikan, 1968: 90. Unavailable name.

Idioctetus Herrich-Schäffer, [1856] a: wrapper to pl. 88, fig. 504. — Type species: Idioctetus leucanioides Herrich- Schäffer, [1856], by monotypy.

TYPE SPECIES. — Melese postica Walker, 1854 , by original designation.

Figures

FIG. 9. — A-H, dorsal views.A, Cissura decora Walker,1854, holotype male, Brazil (BMNH); B, Melese postica Walker, 1854, holotype female, Brazil, Para (BMNH); C, Fasslia hampsoni Dognin, 1911, holotype male, Colombia, Monte Socorro (USNM); D, Bertholdia specularis specularis (Herrich-Schäffer,[1853]),syntype female,Venezuela (ZIL);E, Xanthophaeina levis (Druce,1899),syntype female, Brazil (UMO); F, Haemanota rubriceps Hampson, 1901,holotype male,Brazil,Espirito Santo (BMNH);G, Watsonidia reimona (Schaus, 1933), Ecuador, Road Lit. – San Lorenso (MNHN); H, Glaucostola guttipalpis (Walker, 1856), Brazil, Espirito Santo (coll. B. V.). Scale bars: 0.5 cm.