{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Metalectra discalis – Common Fungus Moth (14120710918).jpg | image_caption = ''Metalectra discalis'' | taxon = Metalectra | authority = Hübner, 1823 | synonyms = * ''Homopyralis'' <small>Grote, 1875</small> * ''Stimmia'' <small>Guenee, 1852</small> }}
'''''Metalectra''''' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae described by Jacob Hübner in 1823.
==Taxonomy== The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Catocalinae within the families Erebidae and Noctuidae.<ref name="Z+2011">{{cite journal|last1=Zahiri|first1=Reza|title=Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)|journal=Systematic Entomology|date=2011|doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x|display-authors=etal|volume=37|pages=102–124|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lafontaine|first1=Donald|last2=Schmidt|first2=Christian|title=Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico|journal=ZooKeys|date=19 Mar 2010|issue=40 |page=26|doi=10.3897/zookeys.40.414|url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=2182|ref=L&S2010|doi-access=free|bibcode=2010ZooK...40....1L }}</ref>
==Species== * ''Metalectra albilinea'' <small>Richards, 1941</small> * ''Metalectra bigallis'' <small>J.B. Smith, 1908</small> * ''Metalectra cinctus'' <small>J.B. Smith, 1905</small> (sometimes spelled ''Metalectra cincta'') * ''Metalectra diabolica'' <small>Barnes & Benjamin, 1924</small> – diabolical fungus moth * ''Metalectra discalis'' <small>Grote, 1876</small> – common fungus moth * ''Metalectra edilis'' <small>J.B. Smith, 1906</small> * ''Metalectra geminicincta'' <small>Schaus, 1916</small> * ''Metalectra miserulata'' <small>Grote, 1882</small> * ''Metalectra quadrisignata'' <small>Walker, 1858</small> – four-spotted fungus moth * ''Metalectra richardsi'' <small>Brower, 1941</small> – Richards' fungus moth * ''Metalectra tantillus'' <small>Grote, 1875</small> – black fungus moth
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/calpinae/metalectra/ |title=''Metalectra'' Hübner, 1823 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=January 18, 2018}} *{{cite journal |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Noctuidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Noctuidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |date=2023 |publisher=Natural History Museum, London|doi=10.5519/s93616qw }}
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Category:Boletobiinae Category:Noctuoidea genera Category:Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
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