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Meliaba
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
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.

References

1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Meliaba pelopsalis Walker, 1859". Afromoths. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Meliaba​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
3. Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Meliaba Walker, 1859". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved January 6, 2020.

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