Alucita dejongi

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Alucita dejongi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: Euarthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Alucitidae
Genus: Alucita
Species:A. dejongi
Binomial name
Alucita dejongi
Gielis, 2009

Alucita dejongi is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It was described by Cees Gielis in 2009. It is found in Papua New Guinea. [1]

Moth Group of mostly-nocturnal insects in the order Lepidoptera

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.

Papua New Guinea constitutional monarchy in Oceania

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua.

This species belongs to a group of species with white forewings and has a wingspan of 9 mm. [2]

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Cees Gielis is a Dutch entomologist and researcher of biodiversity, specializing in Lepidoptera, at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, Netherlands. As of March 2019, Gielis authored 378 taxa within the family of Pterophoridae and 19 within the family of Alucitidae.

References

  1. ↑ Papua Insects Foundation
  2. ↑ Gielis, C. (2009). "Additions to the Alucitidae of Papua, Indonesia (Lepidoptera)". Bolentin Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa. 44:15-33.


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