Macaria (moth) explained

Macaria is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by John Curtis in 1826.^[1] It is sometimes placed as a synonym of Semiothisa. Species are cosmopolitan.

Description

Palpi hairy, obliquely porrect (extending forward), and reaching beyond the short frontal tuft. Antennae of male ciliated, rarely serrate (shaped like a saw tooth). Forewings of male with a fovea. Vein 3 from angle of cell. veins 7, 8 and 9 stalked from upper angle, vein 10 absent and vein 11 free. Hindwings with the strongly angled outer margin at vein 4 and slightly at vein 6. Vein 3 from angle of cell.^[2]

Species

Species include:

• Macaria abydata Guenée, [1858] - dot-lined angle
• Macaria aemulataria Walker, 1861 - common angle moth
• Macaria adonis Barnes & McDunnough, 1918
• Macaria aequiferaria Walker, 1861
• Macaria anataria Shett, 1913
• Macaria artesiaria (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
• Macaria artesiaria (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
• Macaria banksianae Ferguson, 1974
• Macaria bicolorata Fabricius, 1798 - bicolored angle moth
• Macaria bisignata Walker, 1866 - red-headed inchworm moth
• Macaria brunneata Thunberg] 1784
• Macaria carbonaria (Clerck, 1759)
• Macaria distribuaria (Hübner, 1825) - southern coastal plain angle moth
• Macaria fissinotata Walker, 1863 - hemlock angle moth
• Macaria fusca (Thunberg, 1792)
• Macaria garupa Figueredo, Chalup & Fernández Díaz, 2023
• Macaria granitata Guenée, 1857 - granite moth
• Macaria guenearia
• Macaria liturata Clerck, 1759
• Macaria loricaria (Eversmann, 1837)
• Macaria minorata Packard, 1873
• Macaria multilineata Packard, 1873 - many-lined angle moth
• Macaria notata (Linnaeus, 1758) - birch angle moth
• Macaria oweni (Swett, 1907)
• Macaria pinistrobata (Ferguson, 1972) - white pine angle moth
• Macaria ponderosae Ferguson, 2008
• Macaria promiscuata (Ferguson, 1974) - promiscuous angle
• Macaria sanfordi (Rindge, 1958)
• Macaria sexmaculata Packard, 1867
• Macaria signaria Hübner, 1809 - pale-marked angle moth
• Macaria submarmorata Walker, 1861
• Macaria transitaria Walker, 1861 - blurry chocolate angle moth
• Macaria unipunctaria (W. S. Wright, 1916)
• Macaria wauaria (Linnaeus, 1758)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pitkin . Brian . Jenkins . Paul . amp . November 5, 2004 . Macaria Curtis, 1826 . Butterflies and Moths of the World . . October 15, 2020.
2. Book: Hampson, G. F. . George Hampson

   . George Hampson . 1895 . The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III . Taylor and Francis . Biodiversity Heritage Library.