Dolecta

Dolecta is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae. It is endemic to the Neotropical biogeographic region.^[2]

Dolecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Cossidae
Genus:	Dolecta Herrich-Schäffer, 1854[1]
Type species
Dolecta scariosa[2] Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
Species
See text

Species

24 species are recognized in this genus, plus one more of uncertain taxonomic placement:^[2]

• Dolecta akhmatovae Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet Anna Akhmatova)
• Dolecta amanosa (Schaus, 1911)
• Dolecta aroa (Schaus, 1894)
• Dolecta bulgakovi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov)
• Dolecta chekhovi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer and playwright Anton Chekhov)
• Dolecta dostoevskyi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• Dolecta egipan (Dognin, 1923)
• Dolecta esenini Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, or Esenin)
• Dolecta gertseni Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer and thinker Alexander Herzen, or Gertsen)
• Dolecta gogoli Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer Nikolai Gogol)
• Dolecta invenusta Schaus, 1892 (taxonomic status unclear, may belong to the genus Givira)
• Dolecta juturna Schaus, 1892
• Dolecta karamzini Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian historian and writer Nikolay Karamzin)
• Dolecta lermontovi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer, poet and painter Mikhail Lermontov)
• Dolecta macrochir Schaus, 1892
• Dolecta morosa (Schaus, 1911)
• Dolecta nekrasovi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet and writer Nikolay Nekrasov)
• Dolecta ostrovskyi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky)
• Dolecta pushkini Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet, playwright and writer Alexander Pushkin)
• Dolecta rubtsovi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet Nikolay Rubtsov)
• Dolecta saltykovishchedrini Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin)
• Dolecta scariosa Herrich-Schäffer, 1854 (type species)
• Dolecta stanyukovichi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer Konstantin Stanyukovich)
• Dolecta tolstoyi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer Leo Tolstoy)
• Dolecta turgenevi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer, poet and playwright Ivan Turgenev)