Marimatha tripuncta

Marimatha tripuncta is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Heinrich Benno Möschler in 1890. It is found in the Caribbean and southern Florida.

Marimatha tripuncta
Female (left) and male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Marimatha
Species:	M. tripuncta
Binomial name
Marimatha tripuncta (Möschler, 1890)
Synonyms
Xanthoptera tripuncta Möschler, 1890 Thioptera aurifera of authors, not (Walker, [1858])

Adults are on wing from late April to mid-October.

Taxonomy

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

External links

• Ferris, Clifford & Lafontaine, Donald (March 18, 2010). "Review of the North American species of Marimatha Walker with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Eustrotiinae) and the description of Pseudomarimatha flava (Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Elaphriini), a new genus and species confused with Marimatha". ZooKeys. 39: 117–135. doi:10.3897/zookeys.39.424.
• "931287.00 – 9045 – Marimatha tripuncta – (Möschler, 1890)". North American Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
• Bentley, Tom (June 19, 2019). "Species Marimatha tripuncta - Hodges#9045". BugGuide. Retrieved October 7, 2020.