Melese intensa is a moth of the family Erebidae.[1] It was first described by Walter Rothschild in 1910 using specimens collected at San Antonio in western Colombia.[2] These syntypes are held at the Natural History Museum, London. Rothschild originally named it as the subspecies Melesse[sic] chozeba intensa.[3]

Melese intensa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Melese
Species:
M. intensa
Binomial name
Melese intensa

References

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  1. ^ "Melese". www.nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  2. ^ Savela, Markku. "Melese intensa Rothschild, 1910". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  3. ^ Lionel Walter Rothschild Rothschild (1910). "Catalogue of the Arctianae in the Tring Museum, with notes and descriptions of new species. I and II". Novitates Zoologicae. 17: 30. doi:10.5962/BHL.PART.13688. ISSN 0950-7655. Wikidata Q56008342.}