Dolecta

Dolecta is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae. It is endemic to the Neotropical biogeographic region.[2]

Dolecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Cossidae
Genus:
Dolecta

Herrich-Schäffer, 1854[1]
Type species
Dolecta scariosa[2]
Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
Species

See text

Species

24 species are recognized in this genus, plus one more of uncertain taxonomic placement:[2]

  • Dolecta akhmatovae Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet Anna Akhmatova)
  • Dolecta amanosa (Schaus, 1911)
  • Dolecta aroa (Schaus, 1894)
  • Dolecta bulgakovi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov)
  • Dolecta chekhovi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer and playwright Anton Chekhov)
  • Dolecta dostoevskyi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky)
  • Dolecta egipan (Dognin, 1923)
  • Dolecta esenini Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, or Esenin)
  • Dolecta gertseni Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer and thinker Alexander Herzen, or Gertsen)
  • Dolecta gogoli Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer Nikolai Gogol)
  • Dolecta invenusta Schaus, 1892 (taxonomic status unclear, may belong to the genus Givira)
  • Dolecta juturna Schaus, 1892
  • Dolecta karamzini Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian historian and writer Nikolay Karamzin)
  • Dolecta lermontovi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer, poet and painter Mikhail Lermontov)
  • Dolecta macrochir Schaus, 1892
  • Dolecta morosa (Schaus, 1911)
  • Dolecta nekrasovi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet and writer Nikolay Nekrasov)
  • Dolecta ostrovskyi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky)
  • Dolecta pushkini Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet, playwright and writer Alexander Pushkin)
  • Dolecta rubtsovi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet Nikolay Rubtsov)
  • Dolecta saltykovishchedrini Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin)
  • Dolecta scariosa Herrich-Schäffer, 1854 (type species)
  • Dolecta stanyukovichi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer Konstantin Stanyukovich)
  • Dolecta tolstoyi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer Leo Tolstoy)
  • Dolecta turgenevi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer, poet and playwright Ivan Turgenev)

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dolecta​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  2. Naydenov, A. E.; Yakovlev, R. V.; Penco, F. C.; Sinyaev, V. V. (2020). "New data on Neotropical Carpenter-Moths of Subfamily Hypoptinae Neumoegen & Dyar, 1894 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). II. A review of the genus Dolecta Herrich-Schäffer,[1854], with description of seventeen new species". Ecologica Montenegrina. 35: 82–114. doi:10.37828/em.2020.35.7.
  • Data related to Dolecta at Wikispecies
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