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.
Selected species
- Subgenus Procriterna <small>Efetov & Tarmann, 2004</small>
- Adscita amaura <small>(Staudinger, 1887)</small>
- Adscita pligori <small>Efetov, 2012</small>
- Adscita subdolosa <small>(Staudinger, 1887)</small>
- Adscita subtristis <small>(Staudinger, 1887)</small>
- Subgenus Adscita <small>Retzius, 1783</small>
- Adscita albanica <small>(Naufock, 1926)</small>
- Adscita alpina <small>(Alberti, 1937)</small>
- Adscita bolivari <small>(Agenjo, 1937)</small>
- Adscita capitalis <small>(Staudinger, 1879)</small>
- Adscita dujardini <small>Efetov & Tarmann, 2014</small>
- Adscita geryon <small>(Hübner, [1813])</small>
- Adscita italica <small>(Alberti, 1937)</small>
- Adscita jordani <small>(Naufock, 1921)</small>
- Adscita krymensis <small>Efetov, 1994</small>
- Adscita mannii <small>(Lederer, 1853)</small>
- Adscita mauretanica <small>(Naufock, 1932)</small>
- Adscita obscura <small>(Zeller, 1847)</small>
- Adscita schmidti <small>(Naufock, 1933)</small>
- Adscita statices – green forester <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
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, â³a group of seven hangers-on, in default of a better positionâ³. 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. A second synonyom is Ino.
References
- Adscita at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms