{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Metharmostis | authority = | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}

'''''Metharmostis''''' is a genus of moths of the family Cosmopterigidae.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Adamski |first1=D. |last2=Makinson |first2=J. R. |last3=Brown |first3=B. T. |last4=Wright |first4=S. A. |last5=Prattand |first5=P. D. |last6=Brown |first6=J. W. |date=June 1, 2013 |title=Description and Evaluation of Metharmostis multilineata (Cosmopterigidae) and Idiophantis soreuta (Gelechiidae) (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) For Biocontrol Of Downy Rose Myrtle, Rhodomyrtus tomentosa (Myrtaceae) |url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.18473/lepi.v67i2.a2 |journal=Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society |language=en |volume=67 |issue=2 |pages=111–127 |doi=10.18473/lepi.v67i2.a2 |issn=0024-0966|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The genus is defined by its distinct forewing pattern featuring two rows of grayish-yellow streaks from base of cell to crossvein, a cluster of long hair-pencils from the base frenulum in males, and divided halves of the seventh sternum bearing a dense cluster of sex scales in females.<ref name=":0" />

One species of the genus ''Mathamostis multileneata'' was considered for use as biological control agent for ''Rhodomyrtus tomentosa'' in Florida however it was ultimately deemed not sufficiently host-specific.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Pratt |first1=Paul D. |last2=Wright |first2=Susan A. |last3=Makinson |first3=Jeffrey R. |last4=Purcell |first4=Matthew F. |last5=Center |first5=Ted D. |last6=Rayamajhi |first6=Min B. |date=2014-10-03 |title=The broad host range of Metharmostis multilineata precludes its use as a biological control agent of Rhodomyrtus tomentosa |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09583157.2014.914153 |journal=Biocontrol Science and Technology |volume=24 |issue=10 |pages=1188–1191 |doi=10.1080/09583157.2014.914153 |bibcode=2014BioST..24.1188P |issn=0958-3157|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==Species== *''Metharmostis asaphaula'' <small>Meyrick, 1921 </small> *''Metharmostis multilineata'' <small>Adamski, 2014 </small>

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