Metachrostis
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Boletobiinae |
| Genus: | Metachrostis Hübner, [1820] |
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Metachrostis is a genus of moths of the Erebidae family.
Taxonomy
The genus has previously been classified in the Eublemminae subfamily of Erebidae or the Acontiinae subfamily of the Noctuidae family.[2]
Description
Palpi long and upturned, reaching above vertex of head. Thorax and abdomen tuftless. Fore wings with stalked veins 8,9 and 10. Vein 7 sometimes almost or quite touching vein 8, and forming an areole.[3]
Species
- Metachrostis amanica Osthelder, 1933
- Metachrostis antemediana Hacker, 2011
- Metachrostis anticalis Walker, 1866
- Metachrostis atristipata (Hampson, 1926)
- Metachrostis batanga Draudt, 1950
- Metachrostis bipartita
- Metachrostis brunea Hampson, 1891
- Metachrostis chalcoscripta Hacker, 2011
- Metachrostis comvelox Hacker, 2011
- Metachrostis contingens Moore, 1888
- Metachrostis costiplaga Warren, 1903
- Metachrostis dardouini Boisduval, 1840
- Metachrostis dardouini dardouini Boisduval, 1840
- Metachrostis dardouini dilucida Osthelder, 1933
- Metachrostis debivar (Berio, 1947)
- Metachrostis decora Walker, 1869
- Metachrostis djakonovi Kononenko & Matov, 2009
- Metachrostis egens Moore, [1884]
- Metachrostis eupethecica (Hampson, 1910)
- Metachrostis fasciata Hampson, 1891
- Metachrostis lavinia (Hampson, 1902)
- Metachrostis forsteri Hacker, 2011
- Metachrostis glaucopuncta Hacker, 2011
- Metachrostis grandivelox Hacker, 2011
- Metachrostis griseimargo Warren, 1912
- Metachrostis hoenei Kononenko & Matov, 2009
- Metachrostis melabela Hampson, 1910
- Metachrostis miasma Hampson, 1891
- Metachrostis misturata (Hampson, 1910)
- Metachrostis nannata Hampson, 1910
- Metachrostis ochrographa Hacker, 2011
- Metachrostis olmii (Berio, 1937)
- Metachrostis pallidiscripta Hacker, 2011
- Metachrostis parvisi (Berio, 1940)
- Metachrostis paurograpta Butler, 1886
- Metachrostis pectinata Hampson, 1907
- Metachrostis phaeapera (Hampson, 1910)
- Metachrostis phaeographa Hacker, 2011
- Metachrostis politzari Hacker, 2011
- Metachrostis quinaria Moore, 1881
- Metachrostis quinarioides (Berio, 1947)
- Metachrostis remanei Hacker, 2011
- Metachrostis rubripuncta Hampson, 1902
- Metachrostis sciaphora (Hampson, 1910)
- Metachrostis sefidi Brandt, 1938
- Metachrostis sinevi Kononenko & Matov, 2009
- Metachrostis snelleni (Wallengren, 1875)
- Metachrostis stygiodonta (Hampson, 1910)
- Metachrostis subdardouini Hacker, 2011
- Metachrostis subvelox Hacker & Saldaitis, 2010
- Metachrostis thermochroa (Hampson, 1910)
- Metachrostis thermosticta (Hampson, 1910)
- Metachrostis tritonia Hampson, 1902
- Metachrostis velocior Staudinger, 1892
- Metachrostis velocior deserta Amsel, 1935
- Metachrostis velocior velocior Staudinger, 1892
- Metachrostis velox Hübner, 1813
References
- ↑ afromoths.net
- ↑ "Eublemminae". Fauna Europaea. Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- Amsel (1935). Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Kolonial und Übersee Museum in Bremen 1(2): 237.
- Boisduval (1840). Genera et Index Methodicus Europaeorum Lepidopterorum: 96.
- Brandt (1938). Entomologische Rundschau 55: 558.
- Draudt (1950). Mitteilungen der Münchener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 40: 130.
- Hampson (1891). Illustration typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum 8: 12, 73, Pl. 145: 16.
- Hübner (1813). Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge 4(1): 515, Pl. 108.
- Kononenko, V.S. & Matov, A.Y. (2009). "A review of Palaearctic Metachrostis Hübner, [1820] 1816 with description of three new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Eublemminae)." Zootaxa 2026: 1-17.
- Metachrostis at funet.fi
- Moore (1881). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 371.
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
- Osthelder (1933). Mitteilungen der Münchener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 23(2): 85.
- Staudinger (1892). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Gesellschaft Iris zu Dresden 5: 288.
- Warren (1912). Novitates Zoologicae 19: 36.
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