Melisa

Melisa Walker, 1854

Melisa croceipes (Aurivillius, 1892) Gold Coast

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

Melisa atavistis; Strand, 1912, Archiv Naturg. 78 A (6): 192; Hampson, 1914, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. (Suppl.) 1: 84, f. 17; [NHM card]
Melisa croceipes; [AfroMoths]

Melisa diptera (Walker, 1854)

Congo. 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; [NHM card]; [AfroMoths]

Melisa hancocki Jordan, 1936

Uganda. See [maps]

References:

[AFM]
African Moths
[AfroMoths] De Prins, J. & De Prins, W., 2013
Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera)
[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!
[NHM] Natural History Museum
The Global Lepidoptera Names Index; Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[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
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, 1936
Two new African Syntomidae Novit. Zool. 39 : 292-293
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)