Metarbela

Metarbela
Metarbela triguttata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Cossidae
Subfamily:	Metarbelinae
Genus:	Metarbela Holland, 1893

Metarbela is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae described by William Jacob Holland in 1893.

Species

Former species

• Metarbela albitorquata Hampson, 1910
• Metarbela arcifera Hampson, 1909
• Metarbela flavicolor Janse, 1925
• Metarbela heringi Janse, 1930
• Metarbela iridescens Janse, 1925
• Metarbela marginemaculata Gaede
• Metarbela neurosticta (Hampson, 1910)
• Metarbela pagana Strand, 1909
• Metarbela pallescens Le Cerf, 1914
• Metarbela splendida D. S. Fletcher, 1968

References

• Lehmann, I., 1997: Metarbela haberlandorum sp. nov., a new moth from Kenya (Lepidoptera: Metarbelidae). Nachrichten Entomologische Verein Apollo 18 (1): 45–53.
• Lehmann, I., 2007: Metarbelidae. Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Memoir 4: 169–185.
• Lehmann, I., 2008: Ten new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from the coastal forests and the Eastern Arc Mountains Of Kenya and Tanzania, including one species From Two Upland Forests. Journal of East African Natural History 97 (1): 43–82. DOI: 10.2982/0012-8317(2008)97[43:TNSOML]2.0.CO;2. Abstract: .
• 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: .
• Mey, W., 2005: Metarbela naumanni sp. nov. from southern Africa (Lepidoptera: Cossidae: Metarbelinae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 115 (1): 10–12.

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• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.