''Macrothyatira'' 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 n ...

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 ...

s belonging to the subfamily

Thyatirinae The Thyatirinae, or false owlet moths, are a subfamily of the moth family Drepanidae with about 200 species described. Until recently, most classifications treated this group as a separate family called Thyatiridae. Taxonomy References * ...

of the

Drepanidae The Drepanidae are a family of moths with about 660 species described worldwide. They are generally divided in three subfamilies) which share the same type of hearing organ. Thyatirinae, previously often placed in their own family, bear a superf ...

Selected species

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Macrothyatira arizana ''Macrothyatira arizana'' is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by Wileman in 1910. It is found in Taiwan and the Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan. Subspecies *''Macrothyatira arizana arizana'' (Taiwan) *''Macrothyatira a ...

'' (Wileman, 1910) **''Macrothyatira arizana diminuta'' (Houlbert, 1921) *''

Macrothyatira conspicua ''Macrothyatira conspicua'' is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by John Henry Leech in 1900. It is found in the Chinese provinces of Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Hunan, Fujian, Sichuan and Yunnan and in Taiwan. The forewings are pa ...

'' (Leech, 1900) *''

Macrothyatira danieli ''Macrothyatira danieli'' is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by Werny in 1966. It is found in Nepal. References Moths described in 1966 Thyatirinae Moths of Asia {{Thyatirinae-stub ...

'' Werny, 1966 *''

Macrothyatira fasciata ''Macrothyatira fasciata'' is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was first discovered by Constant Vincent Houlbert in 1921. It is found in the following areas of China: Beijing, Shanxi Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a land ...

'' (Houlbert, 1921) *''

Macrothyatira flavida ''Macrothyatira flavida'' is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1885. It is found in the Russian Far East (southern Sakhalin, southern Kuriles), Taiwan, Japan and China (Henan, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Zhe ...

'' (Butler, 1885) *''

Macrothyatira flavimargo ''Macrothyatira flavimargo'' is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found in western China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a populatio ...

'' (Leech, 1900) *''

Macrothyatira labiata ''Macrothyatira labiata'' is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by Max Gaede in 1930. It is found in Myanmar, China ( Sichuan, Yunnan) and Thailand. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index has this name as a synonym of ''Macrothyatira ...

'' (Gaede, 1930) *''

Macrothyatira oblonga ''Macrothyatira oblonga'' is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by Gustave Arthur Poujade Gustave Arthur Poujade (1845–1909, Fontainebleau) was a French entomologist interested in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. He was an honorary ...

'' (Poujade, 1887) *''

Macrothyatira stramineata ''Macrothyatira stramineata'' is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found in Vietnam, Thailand, Assam in India and Yunnan and Hunan in China. The forewings are olive grey with blackish wavy lines. There is an oblong whitish basal patch ...

'' (Warren, 1912) *''

Macrothyatira subaureata ''Macrothyatira subaureata'' is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found in Yunnan, China. References Moths described in 1941 Thyatirinae Moths of Asia {{Thyatirinae-stub ...

'' (Sick, 1941) *''

Macrothyatira transitans ''Macrothyatira transitans'' is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by Constant Vincent Houlbert Constant Vincent Houlbert (18 July 1857 in Voutré en Mayenne – 22 December 1947 in Rennes) was a French entomologist who speci ...

'' (Houlbert, 1921)

References

* , 1916, ''Insect World'' 20 (2): 48 * , 2007, ''Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie'' Band 13: 1-68

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