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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Melese |
| Species: | M. intensa
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| Binomial name | |
| Melese intensa Rothschild, 1910
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References
edit- ^ "Melese". www.nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Melese intensa Rothschild, 1910". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
- ^ 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.}
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.