Alucita
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.
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. However, some subsequent authors 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.
Species
The species of Alucita include:Alucita abenahoensisAlucita acallesAlucita acalyptraAlucita acascaeaAlucita acutata Scholz & Jackh, 1994Alucita adriendenisi B.Landry & J.-F.Landry, 2004Alucita adzharica Alucita agapetaAlucita amalopis Alucita ancalopa Alucita anemolia Alucita angustestriata Alucita anticomaAlucita aramsolkiensis Gielis, 2009Alucita araxella Alucita argyrospodia Alucita arriguttii Alucita atomoclastaAlucita baihua Alucita baliochlora Alucita balioxanthaAlucita beinongdai Alucita bidentata Scholz & Jackh, 1994Alucita brachyphimus Alucita brachyzonaAlucita bridarollii Alucita brunnea Alucita budashkini Zagulajev, 2000Alucita bulgaria Zagulajev, 2000Alucita butleriAlucita canariensis Scholz & Jackh, 1994Alucita cancellata Alucita capensisAlucita caucasica Alucita certificaAlucita chloractaAlucita cinnerethella Alucita coffeinaAlucita compsoxanthaAlucita crococymaAlucita cyanophanes Alucita cymatodactyla Zeller, 1852Alucita cymographa Alucita danunciae Vargas, 2011Alucita debilella Scholz & Jackh, 1994Alucita deboeri Gielis, 2009Alucita decaryellaAlucita dejongi Gielis, 2009Alucita desmodactyla Zeller, 1847Alucita devosi Gielis, 2009Alucita dohertyiAlucita ectomesaAlucita entoproctaAlucita erzayi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2024Alucita eteoxantha Alucita eudactyla Alucita eudasys Alucita eumorphodactyla Alucita eurynephela Alucita euscriptaAlucita fako Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2024Alucita ferrugineaAlucita flavicinctaAlucita flavisertaAlucita flavofascia Alucita fletcherianaAlucita fumosa Alucita grammodactyla Zeller, 1841Alucita granataAlucita habrophilaAlucita helena Alucita hemicyclusAlucita hexadactyla – twenty-plume mothAlucita hirsuta Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2024Alucita hofmanni Alucita homotrochaAlucita huebneri Wallengren, 1859Alucita hypocosma Alucita iberica Scholz & Jackh, 1994Alucita idiocrossa Alucita illuminatrixAlucita imbriferaAlucita iranensis Alucita ischalea Alucita isodinaAlucita ithycyphaAlucita japonica Alucita jujuyensis Alucita karadagica Zagulajev, 2000Alucita kazachstanica Alucita klimeschi Scholz & Jackh, 1997Alucita kosterini Ustjuzhanin, 1999Alucita lackneri Gielis, 2009Alucita lalannei B.Landry & J.-F.Landry, 2004Alucita librariaAlucita longipalpellaAlucita loxoschista Alucita lyristis Alucita mabilabolensis Gielis, 2009Alucita magadis Alucita major Alucita manneringi Gielis, 2009Alucita maxima Alucita megaphimusAlucita melanodactylaAlucita mesolychna Alucita microdesma Alucita micrographa Alucita microscopica Alucita mollifluaAlucita montana Barnes & Lindsey, 1921 – Montana six-plume mothAlucita montigena Alucita mulciber Alucita myriodesmaAlucita nannodactylaAlucita nasutaAlucita nephelotoxa Alucita niphadosema Alucita niphostrota Alucita nipsana Gielis, 2009Alucita nubifera Alucita ochraspis Alucita ochriprotaAlucita ochrobasalis van Mastrigt & Gielis, 2009Alucita ochrozona Alucita ordubadi Alucita palodactyla Zeller, 1847Alucita panduris Alucita panolbiaAlucita papuaensis Gielis, 2009Alucita patria Alucita pectinata Scholz & Jackh, 1994Alucita pepperella Alucita phanerarchaAlucita philomela Alucita photaulaAlucita phricodesAlucita pinalea Alucita pliginskii Zagulajev, 2000Alucita plumigeraAlucita pluvialis Alucita poecilodactyla Alucita postfasciata Alucita potockyi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2024Alucita proseni Alucita pselioxantha Alucita pseudohuebneri Alucita pterochroma Alucita punctiferellaAlucita pusilla Alucita pygmaeaAlucita pyrczi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2024Alucita rhaptica Alucita rhymotoma Alucita riggii Alucita ruens Alucita rutteni Gielis, 2009Alucita sakhalinica Alucita sailtavica+ Alucita sedlaceki Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2024Alucita semophantis Alucita sertiferaAlucita seychellensisAlucita sikkimaAlucita sokolovi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2024 Alucita spiciferaAlucita sroczki Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2024Alucita stephanopis Alucita straminea Alucita syncophanta Alucita synnephodactyla Alucita tandilensis Alucita tesserataAlucita thapsina Alucita tonda Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2024Alucita toxophila Alucita trachydesma Alucita trachyptera Alucita tricausta Alucita tridentata Scholz & Jackh, 1994Alucita ussurica Ustjuzhanin, 1999Alucita vanmastrigti Gielis, 2009Alucita walmakensis Gielis, 2009Alucita wamenaensis Gielis, 2009Alucita withaari Gielis, 2009Alucita xanthodesAlucita xanthostictaAlucita xanthozona Alucita "xanthozona" Alucita zonodactyla Zeller, 1847Alucita zumkehri Gielis, 2009Alucita zwieri Gielis, 2009