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]

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

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

• 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.