# Macarostola

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***Macarostola*** is a genus of [moths](/source/Moth) in the family [Gracillariidae](/source/Gracillariidae). The genus was erected by [Edward Meyrick](/source/Edward_Meyrick) in 1907.

**Characteristics**: Characters of *[Gracilaria](/source/Caloptilia)*, but middle tibiae not thickened, smooth-scaled, scales sometimes expanded at apex only.[1]

## Species

- *[Macarostola ageta](/source/Macarostola_ageta)* (Turner, 1917)
- *[Macarostola callischema](/source/Macarostola_callischema)* Meyrick, 1908
- *[Macarostola ceryx](/source/Macarostola_ceryx)* (Diakonoff, 1955)
- *[Macarostola coccinea](/source/Macarostola_coccinea)* (Walsingham, 1900)
- *[Macarostola eugeniella](/source/Macarostola_eugeniella)* (Viette, 1951)
- *[Macarostola flora](/source/Macarostola_flora)* (Meyrick, 1926)
- *[Macarostola formosa](/source/Macarostola_formosa)* (Stainton, 1862)
- *[Macarostola gamelia](/source/Macarostola_gamelia)* (Meyrick, 1936)
- *[Macarostola haemataula](/source/Macarostola_haemataula)* Meyrick, 1912
- *[Macarostola hieranthes](/source/Macarostola_hieranthes)* (Meyrick, 1907)
- *[Macarostola ida](/source/Macarostola_ida)* (Meyrick, 1880)
- *[Macarostola japonica](/source/Macarostola_japonica)* Kumata, 1977
- *[Macarostola miltopepla](/source/Macarostola_miltopepla)* (Turner, 1926)
- *[Macarostola miniella](/source/Macarostola_miniella)* (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
- *[Macarostola noellineae](/source/Macarostola_noellineae)* Vári, 2002
- *[Macarostola paradisia](/source/Macarostola_paradisia)* Meyrick, 1908
- *[Macarostola parolca](/source/Macarostola_parolca)* Meyrick, 1911
- *[Macarostola phoenicaula](/source/Macarostola_phoenicaula)* (Meyrick, 1934)
- *[Macarostola polyplaca](/source/Macarostola_polyplaca)* (Lower, 1894)
- *[Macarostola pontificalis](/source/Macarostola_pontificalis)* (Meyrick, 1928)
- *[Macarostola pyrelictis](/source/Macarostola_pyrelictis)* (Meyrick, 1927)
- *[Macarostola rosacea](/source/Macarostola_rosacea)* (Turner, 1940)
- *[Macarostola tegulata](/source/Macarostola_tegulata)* Meyrick, 1908
- *[Macarostola thiasodes](/source/Macarostola_thiasodes)* (Meyrick, 1912)
- *[Macarostola thriambica](/source/Macarostola_thriambica)* (Meyrick, 1907)
- *[Macarostola zehntneri](/source/Macarostola_zehntneri)* (Snellen, 1902)

## References

1. Meyrick (1907). ["Descriptions of Australasian Micro-Lepidoptera, XIX"](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30115#page/78/mode/2up). *Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales*. **32**: 62.

## External links

- [Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)](http://www.gracillariidae.net/genus/show/110220)

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