Melipotis jucunda: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Melipotis
- Species
- Melipotis jucunda
- Scientific Name
- Melipotis jucunda
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Melipotis jucunda
Melipotis jucunda, the merry melipotis moth, is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. It is found in Mexico (Yucatán, Mérida), Colombia, most of the United States, western Canada and northeast Brazil.
The wingspan is 35–42 mm. There are two or three generations in New Jersey and multiple generations in the southern part of the range.
The larvae feed on Salix bonplandia and Salix wrighti, Acacia species and Calliandra eriophylla.
...Melipotis jucunda in languages:
- English
- Merry Melipotis
- English
- Merry Melipotis Moth
- English
- Merry Graphic Moth
- English
- Merry Graphic Owlet
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Melipotis acontioides
- Melipotis agrotoides
- Melipotis albiterminalis
- Melipotis amphix
- Melipotis bisinuata
- Melipotis brunnearis
- Melipotis cellaris
- Melipotis comprehendens
- Melipotis contorta
- Melipotis decreta
- Melipotis evelina
- Melipotis famelica
- Melipotis fasciolaris
- Melipotis florida
- Melipotis goniosema
- Melipotis guanicana
- Melipotis harrisoni
- Melipotis imparallela
- Melipotis indomita
- Melipotis januaris
- Melipotis jucunda
- Melipotis limitata
- Melipotis lucigera
- Melipotis mimica
- Melipotis nigrobasis
- Melipotis novanda
- Melipotis ochrodes
- Melipotis perpendicularis
- Melipotis prolata
- Melipotis punctifinis
- Melipotis separata
- Melipotis strigifera
- Melipotis trujillensis
- Melipotis walkeri