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''Phycita'' is a genus of small moths belonging to the snout moth family (Pyralidae). They are the type genus of their tribe Phycitini and of the huge snout moth subfamily Phycitinae. The type species of this widespread genus is ''Phycita roborella'', under its obsolete name ''Tinea spissicella''. This is believed by many authors to have been described in J. Fabricius' ''Entomologia systematica'' in the 1790s. However, it appears that Fabricius described the species in his 1776/1777 ''Genera insectorum'' already. Fabricius himself established the present genus under the name ''Phycis''. But this name had already been used for a genus of northern hakes by P. Artedi in his catalogue of fishes (''Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium''), edited and published posthumously by J. Walbaum in 1792. When this name was replaced, Fabricius' earlier description of the type species was overlooked, eventurally rendering it a ''nomen oblitum''. In any case, the same moth had been first described as ''Phalaena (Tinea) roborella'' by M. Denis and I. Schiffermüller in 1775, and thus their species name has priority over that of Fabricius. Replacement names for Fabricius' ''Phycis'' were proposed at almost the same time in 1828 by J. Curtis and L. Thienemann, but the latter's proposal ''Ceratium'' was also unavailable, having been established for a dinoflagellate genus by F. v. Schrank in 1793. To add further confusion, some authors have claimed that ''Ceratium'' was again established for the present genus in 1848 by J. v. Gistel, but this is not correct – Gistel merely discussed Thienemann's and v. Schrank's names and (unnecessarily) proposed ''Gyra'' to replace the latter, adding yet another invalid name to the synonymy of ''Phycita''. ''Phycita'' species can be hard to tell apart from related moths in the field. The combination of 11 veins in the forewing (vein 7 missing altogether) and an upward-pointing "snout" formed by the long and straight labial palps, whose second segment is much longer than the third, may be diagnostic. The caterpillar's food plants are not comprehensively documented, but seem to include trees of the eurosids I clade and perhaps others.〔Clarke (1986), and see references in Savela (2011)〕 ==Selected species== Species of ''Phycita'' include:〔 * ''Phycita aceris'' Schernijazova, 1974 * ''Phycita amygdali'' Schernijazova, 1974 * ''Phycita arabica'' Asselbergs, 2008 * ''Phycita caiella'' Joannis, 1913 * ''Phycita characterica'' Asselbergs, 2009 * ''Phycita clientella'' Zeller, 1867 * ''Phycita coronatella'' (Guenée, 1845) * ''Phycita demidovi'' Guillermet, 2007 * ''Phycita diaphana'' (Staudinger, 1870) * ''Phycita eulepidella'' Hampson, 1896 * ''Phycita fuscopilella'' Chrétien * ''Phycita hyssarica'' Schernijazova, 1974 * ''Phycita macrodontella'' (Ragonot, 1887) * ''Phycita meliella'' * ''Phycita metzneri'' (Zeller, 1846) * ''Phycita nephodeella'' Ragonot, 1887 * ''Phycita orthoclina'' (Meyrick, 1929) * ''Phycita pectinicornella'' Fryer, 1912 * ''Phycita pedisignella'' Ragonot, 1887 * ''Phycita poteriella'' (Zeller, 1846) * ''Phycita rhapta'' (Turner, 1947) * ''Phycita roborella'' * ''Phycita strigata'' (Staudinger, 1879) * ''Phycita torrenti'' Agenjo, 1962 * ''Phycita trachystola'' Turner, 1904 * ''Phycita venalbellus'' (de Joannis, 1922) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phycita」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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