Alucita

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Alucita
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Twenty-plume moth (A. hexadactyla) imago
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Alucitidae
Genus: Alucita
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Alucita hexadactyla
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms   [1]
  • Aleucita( lapsus )
  • Allucita(lapsus)
  • AlucitinaHeydenreich, 1851 [Note 1]
  • EuchiradiaHübner, 1826
  • OrneodesLatreille, 1796
  • Orneodus ( lapsus )
  • RhipidophoraHübner, 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 worldwide and contains about 180 species as of 2011; new species are still being described and discovered regularly.[ citation needed ] Formerly, many similar moths of superfamilies Alucitoidea, Copromorphoidea and Pterophoroidea were also placed in Alucita.[ citation needed ]

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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:

Notes

  1. ↑ 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.[ citation needed ]
  2. ↑ Preoccupied by Diakonoff's species and in need of renaming.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. 1 2 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.
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