Metarbelinae

Metarbelinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Glossata
Infraorder: Heteroneura
(unranked): Apoditrysia
Superfamily: Cossoidea
Family: Metarbelidae
Strand, 1909
Synonyms
  • Arbelidae Hampson, [1893]
  • Holandiidae Karsch, 1896
  • Lepidarbelidae Dalla Torre & Strand, 1923
  • Teragridae Hampson, 1920

The Metarbelidae are a family of the Cossoidea also called the carpenter or goat moths.

Distribution

The family is most diverse on the African mainland. The family is absent in the New World, Europe, northern Asia, Australia and have a very scattered occurrence on Madagascar and in the Oriental Region through the Arabian Peninsula.[1]

Genera

Former genera

References

  1. Lehmann, I., 2008: Six New Species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, Including One New Species from Marenji Forest in Southeast Coastal Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 97 (2): 187-206. DOI: 10.2982/0012-8317-97.2.187. Abstract: .
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