{{Short description|Tribe of moths}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Chiasmia emersaria.jpg | image_caption = ''Semiothisa emersaria'' is sometimes placed in ''Chiasmia'' | taxon = Macariini | authority = Guenée, 1858 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text | synonyms_ref = <ref>Forum Herbulot (2008)</ref> | synonyms = *Fernaldellini <small>Hulst, 1896</small> *Semiothisini <small>Warren, 1894</small> }} thumb|''Isturgia limbaria'' thumb|''Macaria alternata''
The '''Macariini''' are a tribe of geometer moths in the subfamily Ennominae. Though they share many traits with the Sterrhinae, this is probably plesiomorphic rather than indicative of a close relationship, and DNA sequence data points to the Boarmiini as particularly close relatives of the Macariini. All things considered, this tribe might still resemble the first Ennominae more than any other living lineage in the subfamily.<ref name = young2008>Young (2008)</ref>
==Selected genera and species==
As numerous ennominae genera have not yet been assigned to a tribe,<ref>See references in Savela (2008)</ref> the genus list should be considered preliminary. * ''Acanthovalva'' * ''Aporhoptrina'' * ''Chiasmia'' * ''Digrammia'' * ''Dissomorphia'' * ''Elpiste'' * ''Epelis'' * ''Eumacaria'' * ''Fernaldella''<ref name=ferguson/> * ''Gnopharmia'' * ''Godonela'' * ''Heliomata'' - might belong in Abraxini (Cassymini if distinct) * ''Heterocallia'' * ''Hypephyra'' * ''Isturgia'' ** Frosted yellow, ''Isturgia limbaria'' * ''Itame'' * ''Letispe''<ref name=ferguson/> * ''Luxiaria'' * ''Macaria''<ref name=ferguson/> * ''Mellilla'' * ''Milocera'' * ''Monocerotesa'' - might belong in Boarmiini * ''Narraga'' * ''Neritodes'' (tentatively placed here) * ''Oxymacaria'' * ''Parosteodes'' * ''Phyle'' * ''Plateoplia'' <!-- "Platyeoplia" is lapsus --> * ''Platypepla'' <!-- "Platypela" is lapsus --> * ''Psamatodes''<ref name=ferguson/> * ''Pygmaena'' * ''Rectopis'' * ''Rindgea''<ref name=ferguson/> * ''Rhoptria'' * ''Semiothisa'' – includes ''Chiasmia'' and ''Macaria''<!-- Zoomorphology (1996) 116:77–83 --> ** Latticed heath, ''Semiothisa clathrata'' * ''Speranza'' * ''Tephrina'' * ''Trigrammia''<ref name=ferguson/>
In addition, ''"Boarmia" penthearia'' appears to belong to the Macariini too.<ref name = young2008 />
==Footnotes== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=ferguson> {{cite book|title=The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 17.2: Geometridae, Ennominae (Abaxini, Cassymini, Macariini) | publisher=Wedge Entomological Research Foundation | author1 = Douglas C. Ferguson | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-933003-13-2 }}</ref> }}
==References== {{Wikispecies}} {{Commons category}} * {{aut|Forum Herbulot}} (2008): [http://www.herbulot.de/famgroup.htm Family group names in Geometridae]. Retrieved 22 July 2008. * {{aut|Savela, Markku}} (2008): [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/geometroidea/geometridae/ennominae/index.html Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Ennominae]. Version of 8 March 2008. Retrieved 21 July 2008. * {{aut|Young, Catherine J.}} (2008): Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini using adult morphology, and phylogeny of the Geometridae based on morphological characters. ''Zootaxa'' '''1736''': 1-141. [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01736p141f.pdf PDF abstract and excerpt]
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Category:Macariini Category:Moth tribes Category:Taxa named by Achille Guenée
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