Melese intensa Rothschild, 1910 is a animal in the Erebidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Melese intensa Rothschild, 1910

Melese intensa Rothschild, 1910

Melese intensa is a moth species in Erebidae, first described by Walter Rothschild in 1910 from Colombian specimens.

Family
Genus
Melese
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Melese intensa Rothschild, 1910

Melese intensa is a moth species that belongs to the family Erebidae. It was first formally described by Walter Rothschild in 1910, from specimens collected at San Antonio in western Colombia. The syntype specimens of this species are currently stored at the Natural History Museum, London. When Rothschild first published this taxon, he originally treated it as the subspecies Melese chozeba intensa (his original published spelling of the genus was a typo for Melese).

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Erebidae Melese

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