Metacrias | |
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Female Metacrias huttoni | |
Male Metacrias huttoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
Genus: | Metacrias Meyrick, 1887 |
Type species | |
Metacrias erichrysa Meyrick, 1887
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Metacrias is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. All species are endemic to New Zealand.[1][2]
Metacrias was first described by Edward Meyrick in a paper in the journal Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales published in 1887.[3][4] It has been postulated that this genus may be cogeneric with Phaos, an Australian genus.[5]