Metacrias facts for kids
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| Female Metacrias huttoni | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
| Genus: | Metacrias Meyrick, 1887 |
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| Metacrias erichrysa Meyrick, 1887
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Metacrias is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. All species are endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
Metacrias was first described by Edward Meyrick in a paper in the journal Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales published in 1887. It has been postulated that this genus may be cogenetic with Phaos, an Australian genus.
Species
- Metacrias erichrysa Meyrick, 1886
- Metacrias huttoni Butler, 1879
- Metacrias strategica (Hudson, 1889)
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