Metachrostis

{{short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Metachrostis | authority = Hübner, [1820] | synonyms = *''Leptosia'' Guenée, 1841 *''Zalaca'' Walker, [1866] *''Neoleptosia'' Koçak, 1980 | synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite web |last1=De Prins |first1=J. |last2=De Prins |first2=W. |name-list-style=amp |date=2018 |url=http://www.afromoths.net/genus/show/810590 |title=''Metachrostis'' Hübner, 1820 |website=Afromoths |accessdate=January 20, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |date=June 16, 2020 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/erebidae/boletobiinae/metachrostis/ |title=''Metachrostis'' Hübner, [1820] |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=October 5, 2020}}</ref> }}

'''''Metachrostis''''' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1820.<ref>{{LepIndex |id=272112 |accessdate=October 5, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |date=November 5, 2004 |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=17754.0 |title=''Metachrostis'' Hübner, 1820 |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |accessdate=October 5, 2020}}</ref>

==Taxonomy== The genus has previously been classified in the Eublemminae subfamily of Erebidae or the Acontiinae subfamily of the family Noctuidae.<ref name=FE>{{cite web |title=Eublemminae|url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=446695|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219202555/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=446695|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 19, 2013|website=Fauna Europaea |accessdate=26 November 2014}}</ref>

==Description== Palpi long and upturned, reaching above vertex of head. Thorax and abdomen tuftless. Forewings with stalked veins 8,9 and 10. Vein 7 sometimes almost or quite touching vein 8, and forming an areole.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1894 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>

==Species== {{columns-list |colwidth=18em | * ''Metachrostis amanica'' Osthelder, 1933 * ''Metachrostis antemediana'' Hacker, 2011 * ''Metachrostis anticalis'' (Walker, [1866]) * ''Metachrostis anticalis'' Walker, 1866 * ''Metachrostis atristipata'' (Hampson, 1926) * ''Metachrostis batanga'' Draudt, 1950 * ''Metachrostis bipartita'' Kononenko & Matov, 2009 * ''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 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 forsteri'' Hacker, 2011 * ''Metachrostis glaucopuncta'' Hacker, 2011 * ''Metachrostis grandivelox'' Hacker, 2011 * ''Metachrostis griseimargo'' Warren, 1912 * ''Metachrostis hoenei'' Kononenko & Matov, 2009 * ''Metachrostis lavinia'' (Hampson, 1902) * ''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 velox'' Hübner, 1813 }}

==References== {{Reflist}} * 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. * Moore (1881). ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 1881: 371. * 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.

Category:Boletobiinae Category:Noctuoidea genera Category:Taxa named by Jacob Hübner