Macroscelesia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Superfamilia: Cossoidea

Familia:Sesiidae
Subfamilia: Sesiinae
Tribus: Melittiini
Genus: Macroscelesia
Species: M. amamiana – M. aritai – M. diaphana – M. elaea – M. formosana – M. japona – M. longipes – M. okinawana – M. owadai – M. perlucida – M. sapaensis – M. vietnamica – M. yaeyamana
Name

Macroscelesia Hampson, 1919

Type species: Melittia longipes F. Moore, 1877, by original designation.
References

Gorbunov, O.G. & Arita, Y., 1995: New taxa of the tribe Melittiini (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) from the Oriental Region. Tinea, 14(3): 149–156.
Kallies, A., Arita, Y. & Min, W. 2016. A new species and new records of Melittiini from China and Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae). Zootaxa 4205(2): 162–170. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.2.5. Reference page.
Arita, Y., Kimura, M., Yata, N. & Nagase, M. 2016. Vicariance in the Macroscelesia japona species-group (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) in the Ryukyus, Japan. Tinea 23(4): 184–198.Reference page.