Alucita
Largest genus of the many-plumed moths (Alucitidae)
"Alucitina" redirects here. As used by Zeller in 1841, this refers to
many-plumed moths in general. "Rhipidophora" redirects here. In botany, this refers to a genus of
diatoms .
Alucita genus of many-plumed moths (family Alucitidae); it is also the type genus of its family and the disputed superfamily Alucitoidea . This genus occurs almost worldwide and contains about 180 species as of 2011[update] [citation needed Formerly, many similar moths of superfamilies Alucitoidea, Copromorphoidea and Pterophoroidea were also placed in Alucita .[citation needed
The genus Alucita was established by Carl Linnaeus in the 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as a subgenus of Phalaena Linné's "wastebin genus " for moths [citation needed . Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 seems to have been the first author to consider Alucita a genus in its own right, and it remains so until today.[citation needed However, some subsequent authors[who? believed Linnaeus' name to be invalid, and established alternative names for this genus, but, while the oldest of these, Pierre André Latreille 's Orneodes , was used instead of Alucita for a long time, all these subsequent names are today recognized as junior synonyms .[ 1]
Species
The species of Alucita are:
Alucita abenahoensis Alucita acalles Alucita acalyptra Alucita acascaea Alucita acutata Scholz & Jackh, 1994 Alucita adriendenisi B.Landry & J.-F.Landry, 2004 Alucita adzharica Alucita agapeta Alucita amalopis Alucita ancalopa Alucita anemolia Alucita angustestriata Alucita anticoma Alucita aramsolkiensis Gielis, 2009 Alucita araxella Alucita argyrospodia (Diakonoff, 1954) Alucita arriguttii Alucita atomoclasta Alucita baihua Alucita baliochlora (Meyrick, 1929) Alucita balioxantha Alucita beinongdai Alucita bidentata Scholz & Jackh, 1994 Alucita brachyphimus (Hering, 1917) Alucita brachyzona Alucita bridarollii Alucita brunnea Alucita budashkini Zagulajev, 2000 Alucita bulgaria Zagulajev, 2000 Alucita butleri Alucita canariensis Scholz & Jackh, 1994 Alucita cancellata (Meyrick, 1908) Alucita capensis Alucita caucasica Alucita certifica Alucita chloracta Alucita cinnerethella Alucita coffeina Alucita compsoxantha Alucita crococyma Alucita cyanophanes Alucita cymatodactyla Zeller, 1852 Alucita cymographa (Meyrick, 1929) Alucita danunciae Vargas, 2011 Alucita debilella Scholz & Jackh, 1994 Alucita deboeri Gielis, 2009 Alucita decaryella Alucita dejongi Gielis, 2009 Alucita desmodactyla Zeller, 1847 Alucita devosi Gielis, 2009 Alucita dohertyi Alucita ectomesa Alucita entoprocta Alucita eteoxantha (Meyrick, 1929) Alucita eudactyla Alucita eudasys (Diakonoff, 1954) Alucita eumorphodactyla Alucita eurynephela (Meyrick, 1929) Alucita euscripta Alucita ferruginea Alucita flavicincta Alucita flaviserta Alucita flavofascia Alucita fletcheriana Alucita fumosa Alucita grammodactyla Zeller, 1841 Alucita granata Alucita habrophila Alucita helena Alucita hemicyclus Alucita hexadactyla Alucita hofmanni Alucita homotrocha Alucita huebneri Wallengren, 1859 Alucita hypocosma Alucita iberica Scholz & Jackh, 1994 Alucita idiocrossa Alucita illuminatrix Alucita imbrifera Alucita iranensis Alucita ischalea Alucita isodina Alucita ithycypha Alucita japonica Alucita jujuyensis Alucita karadagica Zagulajev, 2000 Alucita kazachstanica Alucita klimeschi Scholz & Jackh, 1997 Alucita kosterini Ustjuzhanin, 1999 Alucita lackneri Gielis, 2009 Alucita lalannei B.Landry & J.-F.Landry, 2004 Alucita libraria Alucita longipalpella Alucita loxoschista Alucita lyristis Alucita mabilabolensis Gielis, 2009 Alucita magadis Alucita major (Rebel, 1906) Alucita manneringi Gielis, 2009 Alucita maxima Alucita megaphimus Alucita melanodactyla Alucita mesolychna Alucita microdesma (Meyrick, 1929) Alucita micrographa (Diakonoff, 1954) Alucita microscopica Alucita molliflua Alucita montana Barnes & Lindsey, 1921 – Montana six-plume mothAlucita montigena Alucita mulciber Alucita myriodesma Alucita nannodactyla Alucita nasuta Alucita nephelotoxa Alucita niphadosema (Diakonoff, 1954) Alucita niphostrota Alucita nipsana Gielis, 2009 Alucita nubifera Alucita ochraspis (Meyrick, 1929) Alucita ochriprota Alucita ochrobasalis van Mastrigt & Gielis, 2009 Alucita ochrozona Alucita ordubadi Alucita palodactyla Zeller, 1847 Alucita panduris Alucita panolbia Alucita papuaensis Gielis, 2009 Alucita patria Alucita pectinata Scholz & Jackh, 1994 Alucita pepperella Alucita phanerarcha Alucita philomela Alucita photaula Alucita phricodes Alucita pinalea Alucita pliginskii Zagulajev, 2000 Alucita plumigera Alucita pluvialis Alucita poecilodactyla Alucita postfasciata Alucita proseni Alucita pselioxantha Alucita pseudohuebneri Alucita pterochroma (J.F.G.Clarke, 1986) Alucita punctiferella Alucita pusilla Alucita pygmaea Alucita rhaptica Alucita rhymotoma Alucita riggii Alucita ruens Alucita rutteni Gielis, 2009 Alucita sakhalinica Alucita sailtavica Alucita semophantis (Meyrick, 1929) Alucita sertifera Alucita seychellensis Alucita sikkima Alucita spicifera Alucita stephanopis Alucita straminea Alucita syncophanta Alucita synnephodactyla Alucita tandilensis Alucita tesserata Alucita thapsina Alucita toxophila Alucita trachydesma Alucita trachyptera Alucita tricausta Alucita tridentata Scholz & Jackh, 1994 Alucita ussurica Ustjuzhanin, 1999 Alucita vanmastrigti Gielis, 2009 Alucita walmakensis Gielis, 2009 Alucita wamenaensis Gielis, 2009 Alucita withaari Gielis, 2009 Alucita xanthodes Alucita xanthosticta Alucita xanthozona (Diakonoff, 1954) Alucita "xanthozona" (J.F.G.Clarke, 1986) [ Note 2] Alucita zonodactyla Zeller, 1847 Alucita zumkehri Gielis, 2009 Alucita zwieri Gielis, 2009
Notes
References
^ a b Brian Pitkin & Paul Jenkins (November 5, 2004). "Alucita " . Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species . Natural History Museum . Retrieved October 15, 2011 .
