Alucita argyrospodia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Clade: | Euarthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Alucitidae |
Genus: | Alucita |
Species: | A. argyrospodia |
Binomial name | |
Alucita argyrospodia (Diakonoff, 1954) | |
Synonyms | |
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Alucita argyrospodia is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1954. It is found in New Guinea. [1]
Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera. Most lepidopterans are moths, and there are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species.
Alexey Diakonoff full name Alexey Nikolaievich Diakonoff was a Russian entomologist who specialised in Microlepidoptera.
New Guinea is a large island separated by a shallow sea from the rest of the Australian continent. It is the world's second-largest, after Greenland, covering a land area of 785,753 km2 (303,381 sq mi), and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania.
Alucita is the largest genus of many-plumed moths ; 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. Formerly, many similar moths of superfamilies Alucitoidea, Copromorphoidea and Pterophoroidea were also placed in Alucita.
Alucita ancalopa is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in Brazil and French Guiana.
Alucita anemolia is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in India (Madras).
Alucita eudactyla is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in Colombia, Brazil and the Antilles.
Alucita flavofascia is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in Japan.
Alucita hypocosma is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in north-eastern China.
Alucita japonica is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in Japan.
Alucita lyristis is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in India (Assam).
Alucita magadis is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in India (Assam).
Alucita montigena is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1910 and is found in Sri Lanka.
Alucita nephelotoxa is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in India (Assam).
Alucita niphostrota is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Alucita pinalea is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Alucita pluvialis is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in India (Assam).
Alucita proseni is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in Argentina, specifically the province of Jujuy.
Alucita rhymotoma is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in India (Kanara).
Alucita toxophila is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Alucita trachyptera is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in southern India and Sri Lanka.
Alucita xanthozona is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It was described by Clarke in 1986. It is found on the Marquesas Archipelago.
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