Taxonavigation

Familia: Metarbelidae
Genera: Aethiopina – Arbelodes – Bjoernstadia – Catarbelana – Dianfosseya – Encaumaptera – Haberlandia – Hollandella – Indarbela – Janegoodallia – Kroonia – Lebedodes – Lutzkobesia – Marshalliana – Melisomimas – Metarbela – Metarbelodes – Mountelgonia – Moyencharia – Ortharbela – Paralebedella – Pettigramma – Saalmulleria – Salagena – Shimonia – Squamicapilla – Squamura – Stenagra – Stueningeria – Subarchaeopacha – Teragra

Name

Metarbelidae Strand, 1909

Synonyms

• Arbelidae Hampson, [1893] (Unav.)
• Hollandiidae Karsch, 1896 (Unav.)
• Lepidarbelidae Dalla Torre & Strand, 1923
• Teragridae Hampson, 1920

References

• Lehmann, I. 1997. Metarbela haberlandorum sp. nov., a new moth from Kenya (Lepidoptera: Metarbelidae). Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo N.F. 18(1): 45-53. Reference page. 

• Lehmann, I, 2007: Metarbelidae. In: Lepidoptera of the Brandberg Massif in Namibia.Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Memoir 4: 169–185. Reference page. 

• 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 . Reference page. 

• Lehmann, I., 2009: 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 . Reference page. 

• Lehmann, I., 2010: A new genus of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from the Afrotropical Region with the description of seven new species. Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Memoir 5: 294–322. Reference page. 

• Lehmann, I., 2010: A revision of the genus Arbelodes Karsch (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Metarbelidae)from southeast-central and southern Africa with the description of thirteen new species. Published by the author. Hamburg, 82 pages, 8 b/w plates, 5 colour plates. Reference page. 

• Lehmann, I., 2011: The description of a new genus and twenty-three new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera:Cossoidea) from the lowland tropical rain forests of the Guineo-Congolian Region with notes on habitats and biogeography. Published by the author. Hamburg, 67 pages, 10 b/w plates, 6 colour plates, 1 coloured map. Reference page. 
• Mey, W., 2011: New and little known species of Lepidoptera of southwestern Africa. Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Memoir 6: 146–261.

• van Nieukerken, E.J., Kaila, L., Kitching, I.J., Kristensen, N.P., Lees, D.C., Minet, J., Mitter, C., Mutanen, M., Regier, J.C., Simonsen, T.J., Wahlberg, N., Yen, S-H., Zahiri, R., Adamski, D., Baixeras, J., Bartsch, D., Bengtsson, B.A., Brown, J.W., Bucheli, S.R., Davis, D.R., de Prins, J., de Prins, W., Epstein, M.C., Gentili-Poole, P., Gielis, C., Hättenschwiler, P., Hausmann, A., Holloway, J.D., Kallies, A., Karsholt, O., Kawahara, A.Y., Koster, S., Kozlov, M.V., Lafontaine, J.D., Lamas, G., Landry, J-F., Lee, S., Nuss, M., Park, K-T., Penz, C., Rota, J., Schintlmeister, A., Schmidt, B.C., Sohn, J-C., Solis, M.A., Tarmann, G.M., Warren, A.D., Weller, S., Yaklovlev, R.V., Zolotuhin, V.V. & Zwick, A. 2011: Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. Pp 212–221 In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . PDF Reference page. 

• Lehmann, I. 2012. Description of a new genus and species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera, Cossoidea) from the Albertine Rift region of Tanzania, East Africa. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 59: 234–240. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Lehmann, I., 2013: Description of two new genera and ten new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera:Cossoidea) from western, north-central and eastern Africa with notes on habitats and biogeography. Published by the author. Hamburg, 82 pages, 10 b/w plates, 5 colour plates, 2 coloured maps. Reference page. 

• Lehmann, I. & Rajaei Sh., H. 2013. Description of a new genus and three new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera, Cossoidea) from East and Central Africa, with notes on biogeography. Bonn zoological bulletin 62(1): 100–110. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• Lehmann, I. 2014: Description of two new genera and two new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera, Cossoidea) from the Northeastern Congolian Lowland Forests Ecoregion (Central Africa). Zootaxa 3895(4): 570–580. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3895.4.6 Reference page. 

• Lehmann, I. 2019. First revision of the family Metarbelidae Strand, 1909 (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea Leach, 1815) and a phylogeny based on adult morphology of 60 genera from the Afrotropical and Oriental Region. Doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Bonn. Hamburg in March 2019: pp. 1–399 including 200 coloured Figures, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2019. URN: nbn:de:hbz:5n-55423 Reference page. 

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