| Higher taxa: |
Nolidae (family)/
Chloephorinae (subfamily)/
Chloephorini (tribe)/
Metaculasta (genus)/
|
| Status: | Synonym
, the accepted name is Arcyophora
|
| Authorship: | Butler, 1898 |
| Citation: | Metaculasta, gen. nov. |
| Taxon remarks: | Type species: Metaculasta dives Butler, 1898. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London 57: 444. By original designation. Included by Poole (1989) as a junior synonym of Arcyophora Guenée, 1852. |
| Publication: | Butler A. G. 1898b. On a collection of Lepidoptera made in British East Africa by Mr. C. S. Betton. |
| Journal: | Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |
| Volume: | 1898 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pagination: | 444 |