Metachanda

{{short description|Sole genus of moth tribe Metachandini (Gelechioidea, Oecophoridae, Oecophorinae)}}

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| taxon = Metachanda

| authority = Meyrick, 1911

| type_species = Metachanda thaleropis

| type_species_authority = Meyrick, 1911

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Metachanda is the sole genus in tribe Metachandini of moth subfamily Oecophorinae.{{LepIndex}}{{cite web |last1=De Prins |first1=J. |last2=De Prins |first2=W. |title=Metachanda Meyrick, 1911 |url=http://www.afromoths.net/genus/show/250420 |website=AfroMoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) |access-date=22 June 2018 |date=2018}} Metachandini was originally described as family Metachandidae by Edward Meyrick in 1911, and at the time also contained the genus Chanystis,{{cite journal |last1=Meyrick |first1=Edward |title=Tortricina and Tineina |journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London |date=1911 |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=275–281 |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16422390 |access-date=22 June 2018 |series=Zoology. Series 2 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1911.tb00085.x |language=en |issn=1945-9440}} which is currently unplaced to tribe within Oecophorinae.{{LepIndex|id=112235|name=Chanystis}} It has also previously been described as tribe Metachandini of subfamily Gelechiinae.{{cite journal |title=METACHANDA - Butterflies and Moths of the World |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=17750.0 |website=www.nhm.ac.uk | date=2023 | doi=10.5519/s93616qw |access-date=21 June 2018 | author1=Natural History Museum | last2=Pitkin | first2=Brian | last3=Jenkins | first3=Paul }}

Its type species is Metachanda thaleropis.{{cite web |last1=Savela |first1=Markku |title=Metachanda |url=http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/oecophoridae/oecophorinae/metachanda/ |website=ftp.funet.fi |access-date=21 June 2018}}