Macaria is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It was erected by John Curtis in 1826. The genus Macaria 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.
Species
Species include:
- Macaria abydata <small>Guenée, [1858]</small> - dot-lined angle
- Macaria aemulataria <small>Walker, 1861</small> - common angle moth
- Macaria adonis <small>Barnes & McDunnough, 1918</small>
- Macaria aequiferaria <small>Walker, 1861</small>
- Macaria anataria <small>Shett, 1913</small>
- Macaria artesiaria <small>(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)</small>
- Macaria artesiaria <small>(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)</small>
- Macaria banksianae <small>Ferguson, 1974</small>
- Macaria bicolorata <small>Fabricius, 1798</small> - bicolored angle moth
- Macaria bisignata <small>Walker, 1866</small> - red-headed inchworm moth
- Macaria brunneata <small>Thunberg] 1784</small>
- Macaria carbonaria <small>(Clerck, 1759)</small>
- Macaria distribuaria <small>(Hübner, 1825)</small> - southern coastal plain angle moth
- Macaria fissinotata <small>Walker, 1863</small> - hemlock angle moth
- Macaria fusca <small>(Thunberg, 1792)</small>
- Macaria garupa <small>Figueredo, Chalup & Fernández DÃÂaz, 2023</small>
- Macaria granitata <small>Guenée, 1857</small> - granite moth
- Macaria guenearia
- Macaria liturata <small>Clerck, 1759</small>
- Macaria loricaria <small>(Eversmann, 1837)</small>
- Macaria minorata <small>Packard, 1873</small>
- Macaria multilineata <small>Packard, 1873</small> - many-lined angle moth
- Macaria notata <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> - birch angle moth
- Macaria oweni <small>(Swett, 1907)</small>
- Macaria pinistrobata <small>(Ferguson, 1972)</small> - white pine angle moth
- Macaria ponderosae <small>Ferguson, 2008</small>
- Macaria promiscuata <small>(Ferguson, 1974)</small> - promiscuous angle
- Macaria sanfordi <small>(Rindge, 1958)</small>
- Macaria sexmaculata <small>Packard, 1867</small>
- Macaria signaria <small>Hübner, 1809</small> - pale-marked angle moth
- Macaria submarmorata <small>Walker, 1861</small>
- Macaria transitaria <small>Walker, 1861</small> - blurry chocolate angle moth
- Macaria unipunctaria <small>(W. S. Wright, 1916)</small>
- Macaria wauaria <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
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