Machadoia

Machadoia xanthosticta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Arctiini
Subtribe: Phaegopterina
Genus: Machadoia
Rego Barros, 1956
Species: M. xanthosticta
Binomial name
Machadoia xanthosticta
(Hampson, 1901)
Synonyms
  • Hemihyalea xanthosticta Hampson, 1901

Machadoia is a genus of arctiine tussock moths in the Erebidae family. The genus contains only one species, Machadoia xanthosticta, which is found in Ecuador and Brazil.[1]

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