Acanthopsyche is a genus of moths in the Psychidae family. The genus was named by the Dutch entomologist Franciscus J.M. Heylaerts.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Psychidae |
| Genus: | Acanthopsyche Heylaerts, 1881 |
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The males are relatively large, with a wingspan of 15–28 mm. The females are apterous (i.e. wingless) and have rudimentary antennae and legs. The eyes are reduced to black spots. The larvae live in a case which is covered longitudinally with plant matter.[1]
Species
edit- Acanthopsyche atra (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Acanthopsyche calamochroa (Hampson, 1910)
- Acanthopsyche carayoni Bourgogne, 1986
- Acanthopsyche carbonaria Karsch, 1900
- Acanthopsyche chrysora Bourgogne, 1980
- Acanthopsyche ebneri (Rebel, 1917)
- Acanthopsyche ecksteini (Lederer, 1855)
- Acanthopsyche emiliae (Heylaerts, 1890)
- Acanthopsyche entwistlei Bourgogne, 1962
- Acanthopsyche ernsti Bourgogne, 1980
- Acanthopsyche melanoleuca Bourgogne, 1965
- Acanthopsyche mixta Bourgogne, 1962
- Acanthopsyche modesta Bourgogne, 1978
- Acanthopsyche multicaulis Bourgogne, 1985
- Acanthopsyche ogiva Bourgogne, 1984
- Acanthopsyche pauliani Bourgogne, 1984
- Acanthopsyche phaea Bourgogne, 1979
- Acanthopsyche roomei Bourgogne, 1984
- Acanthopsyche siederi Szőcs, 1961
- Acanthopsyche sierricola (White, 1858)
- Acanthopsyche tristis Janse, 1917
- Acanthopsyche tristoides Bourgogne, 1965
- Acanthopsyche zelleri (Mann, 1856)
- Acanthopsyche zernyi (Bourgogne, 1964)
References
edit- ^ Hättenschwiler, P (1985). Heath, John; Emmet, A Maitland; Fletcher, D S; Pelham-Clinton, E C; Skinner, Bernard; Tremewan, W G (eds.). Psychidae. In The Moths And Butterflies Of Great Britain And Ireland. Volume 2. Colchester: Harley Books. p. 147. ISBN 0 946589 19 4.
- Dierl, W., 1972: Revision einiger afrikanischer Psychidae-Gattungen (Lepidoptera) mit einem provisorischen verzeichnis der bekannten afrikanischen Makropsychiden. Mitteilungen der Münchener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 61: 16-63.
- Sobczyk, T., 2011: Die Psychidae (Lepidoptera) des Bismarck-Archipels gesammelt auf der Noona Dan Expedition 1961/62 aus dem Museum Kopenhagen mit einer Checklist der Psychidae Papua Neuguineas. Entomologische Zeitschrift 121 (6): 243-253.
- Sobczyk, T., 2011: World Catalogue of Insects Volume 10 Psychidae (Lepidoptera): 1-467.
- Solyanikov V.P., 2004: New species of the Bagworm genus Acanthopsyche Heylaerts (Lepidoptera, Psychidae) from Saratov Area. Bulletin of Moscow Society of Naturalists, Biological Series 190 (4): 58-59.
- Sviridov, A.V. & S.K. Korb, 2010: An illustrated catalogue of primary type specimens of the Lepidoptera in collection of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University described in the second half of XXth century. Eversmannia 21/22: 6-27.
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