Dolecta

Moth genus in family Cossidae

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

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

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

^ 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.