Macarostola is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae. The genus was erected by Edward Meyrick in 1907.
| Macarostola | |
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| Macarostola thriambica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Subfamily: | Gracillariinae |
| Genus: | Macarostola Meyrick, 1907 |
| Type species | |
| Macarostola formosa (Stainton, 1862)
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Characteristics: Characters of Gracilaria, but middle tibiae not thickened, smooth-scaled, scales sometimes expanded at apex only.[1]
Species edit
- 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 edit
- ^ Meyrick (1907). "Descriptions of Australasian Micro-Lepidoptera, XIX". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 32: 62.
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