{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Enispa elataria (Noctuidae Eustrotiinae).jpg | image_caption = ''Micraeschus elataria'' from Malaya | taxon = Micraeschus | authority = Butler, 1878 }} '''''Micraeschus''''' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878.
==Description== Palpi very slender and obliquely upturned, reaching vertex of head. Antennae with fasciculated cilia in male. Thorax and abdomen tuftless. Legs naked, with normal spurs. Forewing with veins 7 to 10 stalked. Hindwings with stalked 3 and 4. Larva with two pairs of abdominal prolegs.<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 |volume=Moths - Vol. II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>
==Species== * ''Micraeschus elataria'' <small>Walker, 1861</small> * ''Micraeschus rufipallens'' <small>Warren, 1913</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/acontiinae/micraeschus/ |title=''Micraeschus'' Butler, 1878 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=January 20, 2019}} * {{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
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