Mellinia [SEP] parent taxon
Mellinia
Mellinia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
References.
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
), probably came from the state of Rio de Janeiro, although according to von Bonninghausen the species does not occur in the town of Rio itself, but only in the north-west of the province of this name,and is probably distributed as far as Sta. Catharina. The female was first figured by Staudinger; it differs from our figure (mellinia, 66 b) in the darker colouring, the smaller transcellular patches of the forewing and the far larger submarginal spots of the hindwing. — "mellinia" Fruhst