Biology:Alucita

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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.{{citation needed|date=June 2013} The genus Alucita was established by Carl Linnaeus in the 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as a subgenus of Phalaena, . 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.[citation needed] However, some subsequent authors{{who|date=June 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 include:[2]

+ Alucita sedlaceki Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2024

Notes

  1. ↑ Preoccupied by Diakonoff's species and in need of renaming.[citation needed]

References

  1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named pitkinjenkins2004a
  2. ↑ Ustjuzhanin, Peter; Kovtunovich, Vasily; Delabye, Sylvain; Maicher, Vincent; Sáfián, Szabolcs; Streltzov, Alexander; Tropek, Robert (February 28, 2024). "Magnifying the hotspot: descriptions of nine new species of many-plumed moths (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae), with an identification key to all species known from Cameroon". ZooKeys (1193): 25–48. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1193.111544. PMID 38455090. Bibcode: 2024ZooK.1193...25U. 

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