Alucita

"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
Twenty-plume Moth (A. hexadactyla) imago
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Suborder:	Glossata
Infraorder:	Heteroneura
(unranked):	Ditrysia
Superfamily:	Alucitoidea (disputed)
Family:	Alucitidae
Genus:	Alucita Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Phalaena hexadactyla Linnaeus, 1758
Diversity
About 180 species (but see text)
Synonyms
[1] Aleucita (lapsus) Allucita (lapsus) Alucitina Heydenreich, 1851[2] Euchiradia Hübner, 1826 Orneodes Latreille, 1796 Orneodus (lapsus) Rhipidophora Hübner, 1822

Alucita is the largest 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 world-wide and contains about 180 species as of 2011; new species are still being described and discovered regularly. Formerly, many similar moths of superfamilies Alucitoidea, Copromorphoidea and Pterophoroidea were also placed in Alucita.

It was established by Carl Linné in the 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as a subgenus of Phalaena, Linné's "wastebin genus" for moths. 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. However, some subsequent authors believed Linné's name to be invalid, and established alternate names for this genus. But while the oldest of these, Pierre André Latreille's Orneodes, was used instead of Alucita for long, all these subsequent names are today recognized as junior synonyms.^[1]

Species

The species of Alucita are:^[3]

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 – Twenty-plume Moth 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 Moth Alucita 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 spilodesma 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"[4] (J.F.G.Clarke, 1986) Alucita zonodactyla Zeller, 1847 Alucita zumkehri Gielis, 2009 Alucita zwieri Gielis, 2009

Footnotes

1. ^ ^{a b} Pitkin & Jenins (2004a)
2. ^ Some cite Zeller, 1841 as author; this is incorrect, as Zeller's "Alucitina" is a junior synonym of the family Alucitidae, not the genus Alucita.
3. ^ Wikispecies (2011-OCT-15)
4. ^ Preoccupied by Diakonoff's species and in need of renaming

References

Data related to Alucita at Wikispecies

• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004a): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Alucita. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-OCT-15.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004b): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Alucitina Heydenreich, 1851. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-OCT-15.

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