Macarostola

Macarostola
Macarostola thriambica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Subfamily:	Gracillariinae
Genus:	Macarostola Meyrick, 1907
Type species
Macarostola formosa (Stainton, 1862)

Macarostola is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae. The genus was erected by Edward Meyrick in 1907.

Characteristics: Characters of Gracilaria, but middle tibiae not thickened, smooth-scaled, scales sometimes expanded at apex only.[1]

Species

• Macarostola ageta (Turner, 1917)
• Macarostola callischema Meyrick, 1908
• Macarostola ceryx (Diakonoff, 1955)
• Macarostola coccinea (Walsingham, 1900)
• Macarostola eugeniella (Viette, 1951)
• Macarostola flora (Meyrick, 1926)
• Macarostola formosa (Stainton, 1862)
• Macarostola gamelia (Meyrick, 1936)
• Macarostola haemataula Meyrick, 1912
• Macarostola hieranthes (Meyrick, 1907)
• Macarostola ida (Meyrick, 1880)
• Macarostola japonica Kumata, 1977
• Macarostola miltopepla (Turner, 1926)
• Macarostola miniella (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Macarostola noellineae Vári, 2002
• Macarostola paradisia Meyrick, 1908
• Macarostola parolca Meyrick, 1911
• Macarostola phoenicaula (Meyrick, 1934)
• Macarostola polyplaca (Lower, 1894)
• Macarostola pontificalis (Meyrick, 1928)
• Macarostola pyrelictis (Meyrick, 1927)
• Macarostola rosacea (Turner, 1940)
• Macarostola tegulata Meyrick, 1908
• Macarostola thiasodes (Meyrick, 1912)
• Macarostola thriambica (Meyrick, 1907)
• Macarostola zehntneri (Snellen, 1902)

References

1. Meyrick (1907). "Descriptions of Australasian Micro-Lepidoptera, XIX". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 32: 62.

External links

• Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)