The Metarbelidae are a family of the Cossoidea also called the carpenter or goat moths, and is sometimes treated as a subfamily, Metarbelinae of the Cossidae. No synapomorphies are shared with the Cossidae based on adult morphology.[1] The family Metarbelidae was first described by Embrik Strand in 1909.
^Lehmann, I. (2019) Description of two new genera and two new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera, Cossoidea) from Nepal and Sumatra (Indonesia), Oriental Region. Heterocera Sumatrana13 (2): 47-72
Lehmann, I., 1997: Metarbela haberlandorum sp. nov., a new moth from Kenya (Lepidoptera: Metarbelidae). Nachrichten Entomologischer Verein Apollo18 (1): 45–53.
Lehmann, I, 2007: Metarbelidae. Esperiana Buchreihe zur EntomologieMemoir 4: 169–185.
Lehmann, I., 2008: Ten new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from the coastal forests and the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania, including one species From Two Upland Forests. Journal of East African Natural History97 (1): 43–82. doi:10.2982/0012-8317(2008)97[43:TNSOML2.0.CO;2].
Lehmann, I., 2010: A new genus of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from the Afrotropical Region with the description of seven new species. Esperiana Buchreihe zur EntomologieMemoir 5: 294–322.
Lehmann, I., 2010: A revision of the genus Arbelodes Karsch (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Metarbelidae)from southeast-central and southern Africa with the description of thirteen new species. Published by the author. Hamburg, 82 pages, 8 b/w plates, 5 colour plates.
Lehmann, I., 2011: The description of a new genus and twenty-three new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from the lowland tropical rain forests of the Guineo-Congolian Region with notes on habitats and biogeography. Published by the author. Hamburg, 67 pages, 10 b/w plates, 6 colour plates, 1 coloured map.
Mey, W., 2011: New and little known species of Lepidoptera of southwestern Africa. Esperiana Buchreihe zur EntomologieMemoir 6: 146–261.
Lehmann, I., 2012: Description of a new genus and species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera, Cossoidea) from the Albertine Rift region of Tanzania, East Africa. Norwegian Journal of Entomology59: 234–240.
Lehmann, I., 2013: Description of two new genera and ten new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from western, north-central and eastern Africa with notes on habitats and biogeography. Published by the author. Hamburg, 82 pages, 10 b/w plates, 5 colour plates, 2 coloured maps.
Lehmann, I. & Rajaei, H., 2013: Description of a new genus and three new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from East and Central Africa, with notes on biogeography. Bonn Zoological Bulletin 62(1): 100–110. Full article: [1].
Lehmann, I., 2014: Description of two new genera and two new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from the Northeastern Congolian Lowland Forests Ecoregion (Central Africa). Zootaxa3895 (4): 570–580.
Lehmann, I., 2019b: First revision of the family Metarbelidae Strand, 1909(Lepidoptera: Cossoidea Leach, 1815) and a phylogeny based on adult morphology of 60 genera from the Afrotropical and Oriental Region. Doctoral Dissertation. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität BonnURN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:5n-55423: 1–397.
Yakovlev, R.V. & Zolotuhin, V.V., 2021: Revision of the family Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera) of the Oriental Region. VI. Genus Tearbela Yakovlev & Zolotuhin gen. nov. from the Bangladesh and Marcopoloia dea (Swinhoe, 1890) comb. nov. Ecologica Montenegrina, 45, 43–47. doi: 10.37828/em.2021.45.8
Lehmann, I., Zahiri, R. & Husemann, M., 2023: Revision of the Metarbelodes Strand, 1909 genus-group (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Metarbelidae) with descriptions of two new genera and 33 new species from high elevations of eastern and southern Africa. Zootaxa5267 (1): 001–106.
Lehmann, I. & Dalsgaard, T., 2023: Revision of Saalmulleria Mabille, 1891 (Lepidoptera: Metarbelidae) from Madagascar with the description of three new genera and fifteen new species. Evolutionary Systematics7 : 133–182.