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Maceda (moth)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nolidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Subfamily
  
Chloephorinae

Maceda (moth)

Maceda is a genus of moths of the Nolidae family.

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Description

Palpi slender, and reaching just above vertex of head. Antennae ciliated. Abdomen with coarse hair on dorsum of proximal segments. Tibia nearly naked. Fore wings tuftless. Apex almost rectangular. Male with bar-shaped retinaculum. The end of the cell rounded and dilated with a small patch of ribbed hyaline membrane, probably for stridulation with the spines of the mid tarsi. Hind wings with stalked veins 3 and 4.

Species

  • Maceda mansueta Walker, 1858 (Australasia)
  • Maceda ignefumosa Warren, 1912 (from New Guinea)
  • Maceda rufibasis Warren, 1912 (from New Guinea)
  • Maceda ignepicta Hampson, 1914
  • Maceda savura Robinson, 1968 (from Fiji)

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    Maceda (moth) Wikipedia
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