Alucita

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Superfamilia: Alucitoidea

Familia: Alucitidae
Genus: Alucita
Species: A. aarviki – A. abenahoensis – A. acalles – A. acalyptra – A. acascaea – A. acutata – A. adriendenisi – A. adzharica – A. agapeta – A. agassizi – A. amalopis – A. ancalopa – A. anemolia – A. angustestriata – A. anticoma – A. aramsolkiensis – A. araxella – A. argyrospodia – A. armstrongi – A. arriguttii – A. atomoclasta – A. baihua – A. bakingili – A. bakweri – A. baliochlora – A. balioxantha – A. belfragei – A. beinongdai – A. besongi – A. bidentata – A. bokwango – A. brachyphimus – A. brachyzona – A. bridarollii – A. brunnea – A. budashkini – A. bulgaria – A. butleri – A. canariensis – A. cancellata – A. capensis – A. caucasica – A. certifica – A. chloracta – A. cinnerethella – A. coffeina – A. compsoxantha – A. crococyma – A. cyanophanes – A. cymatodactyla – A. cymographa – A. danunciae – A. debilella – A. deboeri – A. decaryella – A. deja – A. dejongi – A. desmodactyla – A. devosi – A. dohertyi – A. ectomesa – A. entoprocta – A. escobari – A. eteoxantha – A. eudactyla – A. eudasys – A. eumorphodactyla – A. eurynephela – A. euscripta – A. ferruginea – A. flavicincta – A. flaviserta – A. flavofascia – A. fletcheriana – A. fokami – A. fumosa – A. grammodactyla – A. granata – A. habrophila – A. helena – A. hendriki – A. hemicyclus – A. hexadactyla – A. hofmanni – A. homotrocha – A. huebneri – A. hypocosma – A. iberica – A. idiocrossa – A. illuminatrix – A. imbrifera – A. iranensis – A. iringiensis – A. ischalea – A. isodina – A. ithycypha – A. jana – A. janeceki – A. japonica – A. jujuyensis – A. karadagica – A. katanga – A. kazachstanica – A. klimeschi – A. kosterini – A. lackneri – A. lalannei – A. libraria – A. lidiya – A. longipalpella – A. longipenis – A. loxoschista – A. ludmila – A. lyristis – A. mabilabolensis – A. magadis – A. major – A. malawica – A. manneringi – A. maxima – A. megaphimus – A. melanodactyla – A. meloui – A. mesolychna – A. microdesma – A. micrographa – A. microscopica – A. mischenini – A. molliflua – A. montana – A. montigena – A. mulciber – A. murphy – A. murzini – A. myriodesma – A. nannodactyla – A. nasuta – A. nephelotoxa – A. niphadosema – A. niphostrota – A. nipsana – A. nubifera – A. nyasa – A. ochraspis – A. ochriprota – A. ochrobasalis – A. ochrozona – A. olga – A. ordubadi – A. palodactyla – A. panduris – A. panolbia – A. papuaensis – A. patria – A. pectinata – A. pepperella – A. phanerarcha – A. philomela – A. photaula – A. phricodes – A. pinalea – A. pliginskii – A. plumigera – A. pluvialis – A. poecilodactyla – A. postfasciata – A. priona – A. proseni – A. pselioxantha – A. pseudohuebneri – A. pterochroma – A. punctiferella – A. pusilla – A. pygmaea – A. rhaptica – A. rhymotoma – A. riggii – A. romieuxi – A. ruens – A. rutteni – A. safi – A. sakhalinica – A. sailtavica – A. semophantis – A. sertifera – A. seychellensis – A. sikkima – A. snezhinka – A. sochivkoi – A. spicifera – A. spilodesma – A. stephanopis – A. straminea – A. syncophanta – A. synnephodactyla – A. tandilensis – A. tanzanica – A. tatjana – A. tesserata – A. thapsina – A. toxophila – A. trachydesma – A. trachyptera – A. tricausta – A. tridentata – A. tropeki – A. udovichenkoi – A. ussurica – A. vanmastrigti – A. walmakensis – A. wamenaensis – A. withaari – A. xanthodes – A. xanthosticta – A. xanthozona – A. zinovievi – A. zonodactyla – A. zumkehri – A. zuza – A. zwieri
Name

Alucita Linnaeus, 1758

Type species: Phalaena Alucita hexadactyla Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Tutt, 1906
Synonyms

Phalaena Alucita Linnaeus, 1758
Orneodes Latreille, 1796
Euchiradia Hübner, 1826, TS: Orneodes hexadactyla Linnaeus, 1758, by original designation.
Orneodus Meyrick, 1909, misspelling.

References

Byun, B.K., 2006, Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) of Korea: Description of a new species and records of two previously unrecorded species, Zootaxa 1188: 37–47.
Gielis, C., 2003: Pterophoridae & Alucitoidea. World Catalogue of Insects, 4: 1–198. Reference page.
Kovtunovich, V.N. & Ustjuzhanin, P.Ya. 2016: Alucita zinovievi, new species of many-plumed moth from Cameroon (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae) Amurian Zoological Journal 8(4): 299–300. Reference page.
Kovtunovich, V.N., Ustjuzhanin, P.Ya. & Streltzov, A.N. 2019. New species of many-plumed moths (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae) from the Republic of South Africa. Ecologica Montenegrina 26: 1-3. Reference page.
Kovtunovich, V.N., Ustjuzhanin,P.Y., Streltzov, A.N. & Ustjuzhanina, A. 2021. New species of Alucitidae from Republic of South Africa (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 49(193): 123-127. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Landry, Bernard & Jean-François Landry, 2004, The genus Alucita in North America, with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae), The Canadian Entomologist 136 553-579.
Mastrigt van, H. & C. Gielis, 2009: Some important notes on Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) of Papua, Indonesia, with description of a new species. SUGAPA (Suara Serangga Papua) 4(2): 34–39.
Ustjuzhanin, P. Ya., 1999: New and little-known Palaearctic species of Alucitidae (Lepidoptera). Far Eastern Entomologist 68: 1–7. Full article: [1].
Ustjuzhanin, P. & Kovtunovich, V. 2016. The Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) of Malawi with descriptions of five new species. Zootaxa 4126(4): 533–547. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4126.4.5 Reference page.
Ustjuzhanin, P.Y. & Kovtunovich, V.N. 2016. Two new species of the many-plumed moth genus Alucita Linnaeus (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae) from Madagascar. Entomological Review 96(8): 1115–1118. Original Russian text published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 2016, 95(4): 889–891. DOI: 10.1134/S0013873816080169 Reference page.
Ustjuzhanin, P.Ya., Kovtunovich, V.N., Maicher, V., Sáfián, S., Delabye, S., Streltzov, A.N. & Tropek, R. 2020. Even hotter hotspot: description of seven new species of many-plumed moths (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae) from Mount Cameroon. ZooKeys 935: 103–119. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.935.49843. Open access. Reference page.
Ustjuzhanin, P.A., Kovtunovich, V.N., Sáfián, S., Maicher, V. & Tropek, R. 2018. A newly discovered biodiversity hotspot of many- plumed moths in the Mount Cameroon area: first report on species diversity, with description of nine new species (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae). ZooKeys 777: 119–139. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.777.24729 full article (PDF). Reference page.
Ustjuzhanin, P.Ya., Kovtunovich, V.N. & Streltzov, A.N. 2020b. New species of many-plumed moths (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae) from Liberia and Ghana (Western Africa). Ecologica Montenegrina 32: 26-31. DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.32.4. Open access. Reference page.
Ustjuzhanin, P.Ya., Kovtunovich, V.N. & Streltzov, A.N. 2020d. New species of many- plumed moth (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae) from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Russian Entomological Journal 29(2): 199-202. DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.29.2.13. Open access. Reference page.
Ustjuzhanin, P.Ya., Kovtunovich, V.N. & Ustjuzhanina, A., 2018: New species of many-plumed moths (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae) from Tanzania. Zootaxa 4438(1): 167–175. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4438.1.9 Reference page. .
Vargas, H.A., 2011: A New Species of Alucita L. (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae) from Northern Chile. Neotropical Entomology 40 (1): 85–88. Full article: [2].
Zagulajev, A.K., 2000: New species of the multiplumed moth family Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) from Russia and adjacent territories: XII. Entomological Review 80 (7): 813–821.

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. Formerly, many similar moths of superfamilies Alucitoidea, Copromorphoidea and Pterophoroidea were also placed in Alucita.

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 . 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. 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:

Alucita abenahoensis
Alucita acalles
Alucita acalyptra
Alucita acascaea
Alucita acutata Scholz & Jackh, 1994
Alucita adriendenisi B.Landry & J.-F.Landry, 2004
Alucita adzharica
Alucita agapeta
Alucita amalopis
Alucita ancalopa
Alucita anemolia
Alucita angustestriata
Alucita anticoma
Alucita aramsolkiensis Gielis, 2009
Alucita araxella
Alucita argyrospodia (Diakonoff, 1954)
Alucita arriguttii
Alucita atomoclasta
Alucita baihua
Alucita baliochlora (Meyrick, 1929)
Alucita balioxantha
Alucita beinongdai
Alucita bidentata Scholz & Jackh, 1994
Alucita brachyphimus (Hering, 1917)
Alucita brachyzona
Alucita bridarollii
Alucita brunnea
Alucita budashkini Zagulajev, 2000
Alucita bulgaria Zagulajev, 2000
Alucita butleri
Alucita canariensis Scholz & Jackh, 1994
Alucita cancellata (Meyrick, 1908)
Alucita capensis
Alucita caucasica
Alucita certifica
Alucita chloracta
Alucita cinnerethella
Alucita coffeina
Alucita compsoxantha
Alucita crococyma
Alucita cyanophanes
Alucita cymatodactyla Zeller, 1852
Alucita cymographa (Meyrick, 1929)
Alucita danunciae Vargas, 2011
Alucita debilella Scholz & Jackh, 1994
Alucita deboeri Gielis, 2009
Alucita decaryella
Alucita dejongi Gielis, 2009
Alucita desmodactyla Zeller, 1847
Alucita devosi Gielis, 2009
Alucita dohertyi
Alucita ectomesa
Alucita entoprocta
Alucita eteoxantha (Meyrick, 1929)
Alucita eudactyla
Alucita eudasys (Diakonoff, 1954)
Alucita eumorphodactyla
Alucita eurynephela (Meyrick, 1929)
Alucita euscripta
Alucita ferruginea
Alucita flavicincta
Alucita flaviserta
Alucita flavofascia
Alucita fletcheriana
Alucita fumosa
Alucita grammodactyla Zeller, 1841
Alucita granata
Alucita habrophila
Alucita helena
Alucita hemicyclus
Alucita hexadactyla – twenty-plume moth
Alucita hofmanni
Alucita homotrocha
Alucita huebneri Wallengren, 1859
Alucita hypocosma
Alucita iberica Scholz & Jackh, 1994
Alucita idiocrossa
Alucita illuminatrix
Alucita imbrifera
Alucita iranensis
Alucita ischalea
Alucita isodina
Alucita ithycypha
Alucita japonica
Alucita jujuyensis
Alucita karadagica Zagulajev, 2000
Alucita kazachstanica
Alucita klimeschi Scholz & Jackh, 1997
Alucita kosterini Ustjuzhanin, 1999
Alucita lackneri Gielis, 2009
Alucita lalannei B.Landry & J.-F.Landry, 2004
Alucita libraria
Alucita longipalpella
Alucita loxoschista
Alucita lyristis
Alucita mabilabolensis Gielis, 2009
Alucita magadis
Alucita major (Rebel, 1906)
Alucita manneringi Gielis, 2009
Alucita maxima
Alucita megaphimus
Alucita melanodactyla
Alucita mesolychna
Alucita microdesma (Meyrick, 1929)
Alucita micrographa (Diakonoff, 1954)
Alucita microscopica
Alucita molliflua
Alucita montana Barnes & Lindsey, 1921 – Montana six-plume moth
Alucita montigena
Alucita mulciber
Alucita myriodesma
Alucita nannodactyla
Alucita nasuta
Alucita nephelotoxa
Alucita niphadosema (Diakonoff, 1954)
Alucita niphostrota
Alucita nipsana Gielis, 2009
Alucita nubifera
Alucita ochraspis (Meyrick, 1929)
Alucita ochriprota
Alucita ochrobasalis van Mastrigt & Gielis, 2009
Alucita ochrozona
Alucita ordubadi
Alucita palodactyla Zeller, 1847
Alucita panduris
Alucita panolbia
Alucita papuaensis Gielis, 2009
Alucita patria
Alucita pectinata Scholz & Jackh, 1994
Alucita pepperella
Alucita phanerarcha
Alucita philomela
Alucita photaula
Alucita phricodes
Alucita pinalea
Alucita pliginskii Zagulajev, 2000
Alucita plumigera
Alucita pluvialis
Alucita poecilodactyla
Alucita postfasciata
Alucita proseni
Alucita pselioxantha
Alucita pseudohuebneri
Alucita pterochroma (J.F.G.Clarke, 1986)
Alucita punctiferella
Alucita pusilla
Alucita pygmaea
Alucita rhaptica
Alucita rhymotoma
Alucita riggii
Alucita ruens
Alucita rutteni Gielis, 2009
Alucita sakhalinica
Alucita sailtavica
Alucita semophantis (Meyrick, 1929)
Alucita sertifera
Alucita seychellensis
Alucita sikkima
Alucita spicifera
Alucita stephanopis
Alucita straminea
Alucita syncophanta
Alucita synnephodactyla
Alucita tandilensis
Alucita tesserata
Alucita thapsina
Alucita toxophila
Alucita trachydesma
Alucita trachyptera
Alucita tricausta
Alucita tridentata Scholz & Jackh, 1994
Alucita ussurica Ustjuzhanin, 1999
Alucita vanmastrigti Gielis, 2009
Alucita walmakensis Gielis, 2009
Alucita wamenaensis Gielis, 2009
Alucita withaari Gielis, 2009
Alucita xanthodes
Alucita xanthosticta
Alucita xanthozona (Diakonoff, 1954)
Alucita "xanthozona" (J.F.G.Clarke, 1986)[Note 2]
Alucita zonodactyla Zeller, 1847
Alucita zumkehri Gielis, 2009
Alucita zwieri Gielis, 2009

Notes

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.

Preoccupied by Diakonoff's species and in need of renaming.

References

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.