Meliaba

Meliaba
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Calpinae
Genus: Meliaba
Walker, 1859
Species:
M. pelopsalis
Binomial name
Meliaba pelopsalis
Walker, 1859
Synonyms

Generic

  • Ichthyopselapha Aurivillius, 1910

Specific

  • Meliaba insignis (Aurivillius, 1910)

Meliaba is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Meliaba pelopsalis, is known from South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Both the genus and the species were first described by Francis Walker in 1859.