Metachrostis

Metachrostis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Boletobiinae
Genus: Metachrostis
Hübner, [1820]
Synonyms
  • Leptosia Guenée, 1841[1]

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

References

  1. afromoths.net
  2. "Eublemminae". Fauna Europaea. Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  3. 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.
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