''Metachanda'' is the sole genus in tribe Metachandini of
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 ...
subfamily
Oecophorinae.
Metachandini was originally described as family Metachandidae by
Edward Meyrick
Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern m ...
in 1911,
and at the time also contained the genus ''
Chanystis'',
which is currently unplaced to tribe within
Oecophorinae.
It has also previously been described as tribe Metachandini of subfamily
Gelechiinae.
Its
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...
is ''Metachanda thaleropis''.
Species
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Metachanda aldabrella''
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Metachanda anomalella''
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Metachanda argentinigrella''
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Metachanda astrapias
''Metachanda astrapias'' is a moth species in the Oecophorinae, oecophorine tribe Metachandini. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1887. It is known from Mauritius, which is its Type (biology)#type locality, type locality.
This species has a w ...
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Metachanda autocentra''
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Metachanda baryscias''
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Metachanda benoistella''
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Metachanda borbonicella''
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Metachanda brachychlaena
''Metachanda brachychlaena'' is a moth species in the oecophorine tribe Metachandini. It was described by Edward Meyrick
Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English school ...
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Metachanda brunneopunctella''
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Metachanda cafrerella''
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Metachanda citrodesma''
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Metachanda classica''
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Metachanda coetivyella''
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Metachanda columnata''
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Metachanda cophaea''
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Metachanda crocozona''
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Metachanda crypsitricha''
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Metachanda declinata''
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Metachanda drypsolitha''
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Metachanda eophaea
''Metachanda eophaea'' is a moth species in the Oecophorinae, oecophorine tribe Metachandini. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. Its Type (biology)#type locality, type locality is on Mauritius.
References
Oecophorinae
Moths descr ...
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Metachanda eucyrtella''
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Metachanda fimbriata
''Metachanda fimbriata'' is a moth species in the oecophorine tribe Metachandini. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910. Its type locality is in Mauritius
Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Moris ...
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Metachanda fortunata''
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Metachanda fulgidella''
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Metachanda fumata''
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Metachanda gerberella''
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Metachanda glaciata''
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Metachanda gymnosopha''
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Metachanda hamonella''
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Metachanda heterobela''
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Metachanda holombra''
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Metachanda hugotella''
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Metachanda hydraula''
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Metachanda larochroa''
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Metachanda louvelella''
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Metachanda malevola''
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Metachanda miltospila''
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Metachanda mormodes''
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Metachanda nigromaculella''
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Metachanda noctivaga''
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Metachanda oncera''
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Metachanda oxyacma''
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Metachanda oxyphrontis''
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Metachanda phalarodora''
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Metachanda plumbaginella''
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Metachanda prodelta''
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Metachanda ptilodoxa
''Metachanda ptilodoxa'' is a moth species in the oecophorine tribe Metachandini. It was described by Edward Meyrick
Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmast ...
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Metachanda reunionella''
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Metachanda rungsella''
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Metachanda rutenbergella''
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Metachanda sublevata''
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Metachanda taphrospila''
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Metachanda thaleropis
''Metachanda thaleropis'' is a type species of ''Metachanda'', a moth genus in the oecophorine tribe Metachandini. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. Its type locality is Mahé Island, Seychelles
Seychelles (, ; ), officially ...
'' Meyrick, 1911
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Metachanda trimetropa''
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Metachanda trisemanta''
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Metachanda trixantha''
References
Catalog of Life
Oecophorinae
Moth genera
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
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