Adscita
Genus of moths
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Adscita is a palaearctic genus of moths of the family Zygaenidae, raised by the Swedish entomologist, Anders Jahan Retzius in 1783. The larvae feed on Cistaceae, Compositae, Globulariaceae and Polygonaceae.[1]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Zygaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Procridinae |
| Genus: | Adscita Retzius, 1783 |
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Selected species
- Subgenus Procriterna Efetov & Tarmann, 2004
- Adscita amaura (Staudinger, 1887)
- Adscita pligori Efetov, 2012
- Adscita subdolosa (Staudinger, 1887)
- Adscita subtristis (Staudinger, 1887)
- Subgenus Adscita Retzius, 1783
- Adscita albanica (Naufock, 1926)
- Adscita alpina (Alberti, 1937)
- Adscita bolivari (Agenjo, 1937)
- Adscita capitalis (Staudinger, 1879)
- Adscita dujardini Efetov & Tarmann, 2014
- Adscita geryon (Hübner, [1813])
- Adscita italica (Alberti, 1937)
- Adscita jordani (Naufock, 1921)
- Adscita krymensis Efetov, 1994
- Adscita mannii (Lederer, 1853)
- Adscita mauretanica (Naufock, 1932)
- Adscita obscura (Zeller, 1847)
- Adscita schmidti (Naufock, 1933)
- Adscita statices – green forester (Linnaeus, 1758)
Etymology
Adscita from adscitus, meaning adopted or enrolled was originally a Carl Linnaeus name. Linnaeus divided the hawk-moths into four groups, three of which he called the true hawk-moths and the fourth, ″a group of seven hangers-on, in default of a better position″. In 1783 Retzius was the first to use Adscita as a genus and he kept two of these moths in the Adscita, i.e. statices and filipendulae (which was later assigned to Zygaena. Of the two synonyms for Adscita; the Danish zoologist, Fabricius erected Procris as a genus in 1807. Procris was the daughter of Erechtheus and wife of Cephalus.[2] A second synonyom is Ino.[clarification needed]
