''Metarctia'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

s in the family Erebidae and subfamily

Arctiinae The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and D ...

. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1855.

Species

Taxonomy

''Collocaliodes'' was established as a subgenus of ''Metarctia''.

References

*Przybyłowicz, Ł. & Bąkowski, M. (2011)
"''Anapisa monotonia'' Kiriakoff, 1963 – a junior synonym of ''Anapisa holobrunnea'' (Talbot, 1932), with new records of Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) from Ghana"
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Zootaxa ''Zootaxa'' is a peer-reviewed scientific mega journal for animal taxonomists. It is published by Magnolia Press (Auckland, New Zealand). The journal was established by Zhi-Qiang Zhang in 2001 and new issues are published multiple times a week ...

''. 3031: 54–60.

External links

* * {{Taxonbar, from=Q5367683 Syntomini Moth genera