''Metarctia'' is a

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moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

s in the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwin ...

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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''. 3031: 54–60.

External links

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