Alucita nubifera | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Clade: | Euarthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Alucitidae |
Genus: | Alucita |
Species: | A. nubifera |
Binomial name | |
Alucita nubifera (Meyrick, 1921) | |
Synonyms | |
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Alucita nubifera is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in Colombia. [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.
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and Peru. It shares its maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Colombia is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments, with the capital in Bogota.
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 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.
Paectes nubifera is a species of owlet moths, etc. in the family Euteliidae. It is found in North America.
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