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The Alucitidae or many-plumed moths are a family of moths with unusually modified wings. Both fore- and hind-wings consist of about six rigid spines, from which radiate flexible bristles creating a structure similar to a bird's feather.
Aluctoidea is the superfamily of many-plumed and false plume moths. These small moths are most easily recognized by their wings. These each consist of many narrow strips of membrane around the major veins, instead of a continuous sheet of membrane between the veins. In living moths in the wild, this is often hard to see however. When they are at rest, the "plumes" partly overlap, appearing as solid wings. But even then, they can be recognized by the wings having a marked lengthwise pattern and uneven edge.
The Tineodidae or false plume moths are a family of moths with in some cases unusually modified wings: Like in some related moths, the wings of several Tineodidae are decomposed into several rigid spines. This is a small family, with about a global total of 20 species described to date; some undescribed species are known or suspected to exist however. They seem to be of Australian origin, where they are most diverse, but range through the Wallacea to Southeast and South Asia, and into the Pacific to the Marquesas Islands.
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.
Microschismus is a genus of moths in the family Alucitidae.
Alucita megaphimus is a species of moth of the family Alucitidae. It is known from Cameroon.
Microschismus antennatus is a species of moth of the family Alucitidae. It was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1909 and is known from South Africa.
Microschismus cymatias is a species of moth of the family Alucitidae. It is known from South Africa.
Microschismus sceletias is a species of moth of the family Alucitidae. It is known from South Africa.
Microschismus premnias is a species of moth of the family Alucitidae. It is known from South Africa.
Microschismus fortis is a species of moth of the family Alucitidae. It is known from South Africa.
Alucita abenahoensis is a moth in the family Alucitidae. It is found in Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
Alucita anticoma is a moth in the family Alucitidae. It is found in New Guinea.
Alucita desmodactyla is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in most of Europe, except Ireland, Great Britain, the Benelux, Portugal, Denmark, Fennoscandia, the Baltic region and most of the Balkan Peninsula. It has also been recorded from Armenia and Tunisia. The habitat ranges from slope steppes to fresh deciduous woodlands on altitudes between 90 and 600 meters.
Alucita grammodactyla is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in most of Europe, except Ireland, Great Britain, Portugal, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovenia and Greece. It is also present in Turkey. The habitat consists of moist rich fens, eu- and mesotrophic meadows, colline and montane hay meadows, acid grasslands and heaths at altitudes ranging from 90 to 900 meters.
Pterotopteryx dodecadactyla is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in Russia, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Fennoscandia, Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy. It has also been recorded from Gabon.
Pterotopteryx spilodesma is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1907. It is found in Russia and from southern India and Pakistan to Japan. It has also been recorded from Korea.
Microschismus reginus is a species of moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in South Africa.
Microschismus sterkfontein is a species of moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in South Africa.
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.
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- ↑ Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2011. A revision of the genus Microschismus Fletcher, 1909 (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae). African Invertebrates;2011, Vol. 52 Issue 2, p557 (abstract)