Acanthopsyche

Acanthopsyche
Acanthopsyche atra male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Psychidae
Genus:	Acanthopsyche Heylaerts, 1881
Synonyms
Hemilipia Hampson, 1897

Acanthopsyche is a genus of moths in the Psychidae family. The genus was named by the Dutch entomologist Franciscus J.M. Heylaerts.

The males are relatively large, with a wingspan of 15–28 mm. The females are apterous (i.e. wingless) and have rudimentary antennae and legs. The eyes are reduced to black spots. The larvae live in a case which is covered longitudinally with plant matter. ^[1]

Species

• Acanthopsyche alstoni(Watt & Mann, 1903)
• Acanthopsyche atra (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Acanthopsyche bipars ^[2] (Walker, 1865)
• Acanthopsyche calamochroa(Hampson, 1910)
• Acanthopsyche canarensis(Hampson, 1905)
• Acanthopsyche carayoni (Bourgogne, 1986)
• Acanthopsyche carbonaria (Karsch, 1900)
• Acanthopsyche chrysora (Bourgogne, 1980)
• Acanthopsyche ebneri(Rebel, 1917)
• Acanthopsyche ecksteini(Lederer, 1855)
• Acanthopsyche elwesi(Heylaerts, 1890)
• Acanthopsyche emiliae(Heylaerts, 1890)
• Acanthopsyche entwistlei (Bourgogne, 1962)
• Acanthopsyche ernsti (Bourgogne, 1980)
• Acanthopysche larimanti(Heylaerts, 1904)
• Acanthopsyche melanoleuca (Bourgogne, 1965)
• Acanthopsyche mixta (Bourgogne, 1962)
• Acanthopsyche modesta (Bourgogne, 1978)
• Acanthopsyche multicaulis (Bourgogne, 1985)
• Acanthopsyche ogiva (Bourgogne, 1984)
• Acanthopsyche pauliani (Bourgogne, 1984)
• Acanthopsyche phaea (Bourgogne, 1979)
• Acanthopsyche punctimarginalis (Hampson, 1897)
• Acanthopsyche roomei (Bourgogne, 1984)
• Acanthopsyche siederi (Szőcs, 1961)
• Acanthopsyche sierricola(White, 1858)
• Acanthopsyche tristis (Janse, 1917)
• Acanthopsyche tristoides (Bourgogne, 1965)
• Acanthopsyche nigraplaga(Wileman, 1911)
• Acanthopsyche zelleri(Mann, 1856)
• Acanthopsyche zernyi(Bourgogne, 1964)

References

1. Hättenschwiler, P (1985). Heath, John; Emmet, A Maitland; Fletcher, D S; Pelham-Clinton, E C; Skinner, Bernard; Tremewan, W G (eds.). Psychidae. In The Moths And Butterflies Of Great Britain And Ireland. Volume 2. Colchester: Harley Books. p. 147. ISBN   0 946589 19 4.
2. Blanford, W. T.; Blanford, W. T.; Hampson, George Francis; Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical (1892). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Moths - Vol. I. London: Taylor and Francis.

• Dierl, W., 1972: Revision einiger afrikanischer Psychidae-Gattungen (Lepidoptera) mit einem provisorischen verzeichnis der bekannten afrikanischen Makropsychiden. Mitteilungen der Münchener Entomologischen Gesellschaft61: 16-63.
• Sobczyk, T., 2011: Die Psychidae (Lepidoptera) des Bismarck-Archipels gesammelt auf der Noona Dan Expedition 1961/62 aus dem Museum Kopenhagen mit einer Checklist der Psychidae Papua Neuguineas. Entomologische Zeitschrift121 (6): 243-253.
• Sobczyk, T., 2011: World Catalogue of InsectsVolume 10Psychidae (Lepidoptera): 1-467.
• Solyanikov V.P., 2004: New species of the Bagworm genus Acanthopsyche Heylaerts (Lepidoptera, Psychidae) from Saratov Area. Bulletin of Moscow Society of Naturalists, Biological Series190 (4): 58-59.
• Sviridov, A.V. & S.K. Korb, 2010: An illustrated catalogue of primary type specimens of the Lepidoptera in collection of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University described in the second half of XXth century. Eversmannia21/22: 6-27.

External links

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
• Indian Bagworms (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Psychidae)