Melisa

Melisa Walker, 1854

Melisa Walker, 1854; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 1: 264; TS: Euchromia diptera Walker

Melisa; [LepIndex]; [AfroMoths]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Melisa (Thyretina); Przybylowicz & Bakowski, 2011, Zootaxa 3031: 59; Przybylowicz & Ochse, 2017, Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 110 (1): 105 (note)

Melisa croceipes (Aurivillius, 1892)

Guinea, Liberia, Ghana, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Zaire. See [maps]

Balacra croceipes Aurivillius, 1892; Ent. Tidskr. 13: 200
- = Melisa diptera; Hampson, 1898, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 1: 152
Melisa atavistis Hampson, 1911; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 8 (46): 395; TL: Gold Coast, Bibianaa
Melisa atavistis f. mariae Dufrane, 1945; Bull. Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 81: 136; TL: Kivu

Melisa atavistis; Strand, 1912, Archiv Naturg. 78 A (6): 192; Hampson, 1914, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. (Suppl.) 1: 84, f. 17; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]
Melisa croceipes; Ochse, 2017, Nachr. Ent. Ver. Apollo 38: 12; [AfroMoths] ; [iNaturalist] ; [AFM]

Melisa diptera (Walker, 1854)

Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Zaire. See [maps]

Euchromia diptera Walker, 1854; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 1: 265; TL: Congo
Melisa grandis Holland, 1893; Psyche 6: 394
- = ; Hampson, 1898, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 1: 152

Melisa diptera; Hampson, 1898, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 1: 152, f. 64; Strand, 1912, Archiv Naturg. 78 A (6): 192; Przybylowicz & Bakowski, 2011, Zootaxa 3031: 59; Ochse, 2017, Nachr. Ent. Ver. Apollo 38: 12; [LepIndex] ; [AfroMoths] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [AFM]
Melisa grandis; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]

Misidentified/misapplied:

Melisa grandis; Jordan, 1907, Entomologist 40 (529): 127
- = Melisomimas metallica; Hampson, 1915, Bull. ent. Res. 5: 245

Melisa hancocki Jordan, 1936

Uganda. See [maps]

Melisa hancocki Jordan, 1936; Novit. Zool. 39: 292

Melisa hancocki; [LepIndex] ; [AfroMoths] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

References:

[AFM]
African Moths
[AfroMoths] De Prins, J., & De Prins, W.
Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera); (Version 2024-03-15). Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Belspo; https://doi.org/10.15468/s1kwuw
[BHL] The
Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[LepIndex] Global Lepidoptera Index
Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A., Lyal, C., Ollerenshaw, J., Wing, P., & Hobern, D. (2024). Global Lepidoptera Index. In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life Checklist (1.1.24.106); https://doi.org/10.48580/dg4lg-49xk
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
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Some related literature:

Aurivillius, 1892
Verzeichniss einer vom Herrn Fritz Theorin aus Gabun und dem Gebiete des Camerunflusses heimgebrachten Schmetterlilngssammlung Ent. Tidskr. 13 : 181-200
Dufrane, 1945
Lepidopteres du Kivu (3e note) Bull. Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 81 : 90-143
Hampson, 1898
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. 1: Syntomidae Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 1 : i-xxi, 1-559, pl. 1-17
Hampson, 1911
Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Syntomidae, Arctiadae, Agaristidae, and Noctuidae Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 8 (46) : 393-445
Hampson, 1914
Catalogue oof the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Volume 1 Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. (Suppl.) 1: i-xxvii [?], 1-838, pl. 1-41, 2: pl. 42 (f. 1-9)
Hampson, 1915
Two new species of wood-boring moths from West Africa Bull. ent. Res. 5 : 245
Holland, 1893
Descriptions of new species and genera of West African Lepidoptera Psyche 6 : 373-376, 393-400, 411-418, 431-434, 451-454, 469-476, 487-490, 513-520, 531-538, 549-552, 565-568, pl. 10, 17-18, 20-21
Jordan, 1907
New African Zygaenidae Entomologist 40 (529) : 121-127
Jordan, 1936
Two new African Syntomidae Novit. Zool. 39 : 292-293
Ochse, 2017
Arctiinae der Subtribus Thyretina in der westafrikanischen Regenwaldregion (Erebidae) Nachr. Ent. Ver. Apollo 38 : 1-22
Przybylowicz & Bakowski, 2011
Anapisa monotonia Kiriakoff, 1963 - a junior synonym of Anapisa holobrunnea (Talbot, 1932), with new records of Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) from Ghana Zootaxa 3031 : 54-60
Przybylowicz & Ochse, 2017
A new, peculiar genus and species of Thyretina (Erebidae: Arctiinae, Syntomini) and a review of African Syntomini baring a pointed abdominal tuft Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 110 (1) : 104-112
Strand, 1912
Zoologische Ergebnisse der Expedition des Herrn G. Tessman nach Süd-Kameroun und Spanish-Guinea. Lepidoptera I Archiv Naturg. 78 A (6) : 139-197
Walker, 1854
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 1: 1-278 (1854), 2: 279-581 (1854), 3: 583-775 (1855), 4: 777-976 (1855), 5: 977-1258 (1855), 6: 1259-1508 (1855), 7: 1509-1808 (1856)

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