Alcis Curtis 1826
Authors/Creators
- 1. Plant Science College, Xizang Agricultural and Animal Husbandry University, Linzhi 860000, China.
- 2. Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology in Xizang Plateau, Ministry of Education (Institute of Plateau Ecology, Xizang Agricultural and Animal Husbandry University), Linzhi 860000, China.
- 3. Forestry technical guidance station, Forestry and grassland Bureau of Qin ' an County, Tianshui, Gansu 741000, China
- 4. State Key Laboratory of Animal Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Description
Alcis Curtis, 1826
Alcis Curtis, 1826: 113.
Type species: Phalaena repandata Linnaeus, 1758.
Poecilalcis Warren, 1893: 427.
Type species: Cleora nigridorsaria Guenée, [1858].
Alcisca Wehrli, 1943: 511. Type species: Boarmia fredi Wehrli, 1941.
Dictyodea Wehrli, 1934: 509.
Type species: Arichanna maculata Moore, 1868.
The following generic characters are summarized based on Holloway (1994) and Müller et al. (2019).
External characters. Antennae bipectinate basally and simple filiform terminally, simple filiform in female. Hind tibia with two pairs of spurs in both male and female, usually dilated with hair-pencil in male. Wings small to moderately large. Male forewing fovea present. Wings usually greyish or brownish. Forewing with postmedial line often protruding twice.
Male genitalia. Uncus and gnathos developed. Socii sometimes present. Valva with costa usually developed into cucullus terminally; valva middle process (=ampulla) single finger-like process, two or three processes, or large sclerite-like bearing different processes. Juxta terminally bifid, forming various processes. Aedeagus often with cornutus.
Female genitalia. Lamella postvaginalis usually developed. Ductus bursae very short, sometimes colliculum present. Corpus bursae very long, often with scobination or corrugation at base.
Distribution. Mainly distributed in Palaearctic and Oriental regions.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Curtis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Alcis
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Alcis Curtis, 1826 sec. Yu, Jiang, Wang, Pan & Han, 2025
References
- Curtis, J. (1826) n. k. In: British Entomology. Vol. 3. Printed for the Author, London, pls. 99-146.
- Warren, W. (1893) On new Genera and species of moths of the family Geometridae from India, in the collection of H. J. Elwes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1893, 341-434.
- Wehrli, E. (1934) Ueber neue palaarktische Geometrinae und ein neues Subgenus. (Lepid. Heteroc.). Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift, 27, 509-513 + 533 - 536.
- Moore, F. (1868) On the Lepidopterous Insects of Bengal. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1867 (3), 612-686.
- Holloway, J. D. (1994) The Moths of Borneo: Family Geometridae, Subfamily Ennominae. Malayan Nature Journal, 47, 1-309.
- Muller, B., Erlacher, S., Hausmann, A., Rajaei, H., Sihvonen, P. & Skou, P. (2019) Ennominae II. In: Hausmann, A., Rajaei, H., Sihvonen, P. & Skou, P. (Eds.), The Geometrid Moths of Europe. Vol. 6. Part 1. Leiden, Brill, pp. 1-906. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004387485