Marimatha tripuncta Ferris &amp; Lafontaine 2010, comb. n.
Creators: name: Ferris, Clifford
name: Lafontaine, Donald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Marimatha
Marimatha tripuncta

description: <i>Marimatha tripuncta</i> (Möschler, 1890), comb. n. Figs 7, 8, 14, 21 <i>Xanthoptera tripuncta</i> Möschler, 1890:158 <i>Thioptera aurifera</i> of authors, not (Walker, [1858]) <b>Type material.</b> Th ree female syntypes. Puerto Rico. MNHU, Berlin, examined. <b>Other material examined.</b> Southern Florida; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Puerto Rico; St Croix, Virgin Islands; Trinidad. <b>Diagnosis.</b> Separated from other species in its North American range by the tuberculate frons, the dark transverse smudge on the DFW, and the deeply curved postmedial line. Some specimens of <i>piscimala</i> from Texas are superficially similar. Male genitalia with large apical cornutus with basal process and several smaller cornuti. Female genitalia with angled diverticulum posteriorly on right side of corpus bursae. <b>Description.</b> Not distinguishable from <i>Marimatha piscimala</i> except by distribution, DNA, and the genital characters given in the diagnosis. <b>Distribution and Biology.</b> Caribbean and southern Florida. Flight season late April to mid-October. <b>Remarks.</b> This species was tentatively identified in Florida as <i>Thioptera</i> [= <i>Marimatha</i>] <i>aurifera</i> (Walker, 1862) by Kimball (1965) and was listed as <i>T</i>. <i>aurifera</i> by Franclemont and Todd (1983) and Heppner (2003). <i>Marimatha aurifera</i> is a South American species that lacks a frontal tubercle and has very different genitalia (Fig. 16).
description: Published as part of <i>Ferris, Clifford &amp; Lafontaine, Donald, 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 (Noctuinae, Elaphriini), a new genus and species confused with Marimatha, pp. 117-135 in ZooKeys 39 (39)</i> on page 128, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.39.424, http://zenodo.org/record/576637
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