- Atteva gemmata
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Atteva gemmata Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Yponomeutidae Genus: Atteva Species: A. gemmata Binomial name Atteva gemmata
(Grote, 1873)Synonyms - Oeta gemmata Grote, 1873
- Oeta fastuosa Zeller, 1877
Atteva gemmata is a moth of the Yponomeutidae family. It is endemic to Cuba.
It is very similar to Atteva rawlinsi from Hispaniola but half its size. In gemmata the dots are reduced in number and connected to each other forming small, vertical, white lines.
Taxonomy
Both available names have been wrongly synonymised under Atteva pustulella (Walsingham, 1897) and reinstated as a valid species (Meyrick, 1914; Walsingham, 1914). However, it seems that both works were overlooked by Heppner & Duckworth (1983) and by Heppner (1984) who continued to follow Walsingham’s synonymy.
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