# Dolecta > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dolecta > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dolecta.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolecta > Source revision: 1304934439 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) ***Dolecta*** is a genus of [moths](/source/Moth) in the family [Cossidae](/source/Cossidae). It is endemic to the [Neotropical biogeographic region](/source/Neotropical_realm).[2] ## Species 24 species are recognized in this genus, plus one more of uncertain taxonomic placement:[2] - *[Dolecta akhmatovae](/source/Dolecta_akhmatovae)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet [Anna Akhmatova](/source/Anna_Akhmatova)) - *[Dolecta amanosa](/source/Dolecta_amanosa)* (Schaus, 1911) - *[Dolecta aroa](/source/Dolecta_aroa)* (Schaus, 1894) - *[Dolecta bulgakovi](/source/Dolecta_bulgakovi)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer [Mikhail Bulgakov](/source/Mikhail_Bulgakov)) - *[Dolecta chekhovi](/source/Dolecta_chekhovi)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer and playwright [Anton Chekhov](/source/Anton_Chekhov)) - *[Dolecta dostoevskyi](/source/Dolecta_dostoevskyi)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer [Fyodor Dostoevsky](/source/Fyodor_Dostoevsky)) - *[Dolecta egipan](/source/Dolecta_egipan)* (Dognin, 1923) - *[Dolecta esenini](/source/Dolecta_esenini)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet [Sergei Yesenin](/source/Sergei_Yesenin), or Esenin) - *[Dolecta gertseni](/source/Dolecta_gertseni)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer and thinker [Alexander Herzen](/source/Alexander_Herzen), or Gertsen) - *[Dolecta gogoli](/source/Dolecta_gogoli)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer [Nikolai Gogol](/source/Nikolai_Gogol)) - *[Dolecta invenusta](/source/Dolecta_invenusta)* Schaus, 1892 (taxonomic status unclear, may belong to the genus *[Givira](/source/Givira)*) - *[Dolecta juturna](/source/Dolecta_juturna)* Schaus, 1892 - *[Dolecta karamzini](/source/Dolecta_karamzini)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian historian and writer [Nikolay Karamzin](/source/Nikolay_Karamzin)) - *[Dolecta lermontovi](/source/Dolecta_lermontovi)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer, poet and painter [Mikhail Lermontov](/source/Mikhail_Lermontov)) - *[Dolecta macrochir](/source/Dolecta_macrochir)* Schaus, 1892 - *[Dolecta morosa](/source/Dolecta_morosa)* (Schaus, 1911) - *[Dolecta nekrasovi](/source/Dolecta_nekrasovi)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet and writer [Nikolay Nekrasov](/source/Nikolay_Nekrasov)) - *[Dolecta ostrovskyi](/source/Dolecta_ostrovskyi)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian playwright [Alexander Ostrovsky](/source/Alexander_Ostrovsky)) - *[Dolecta pushkini](/source/Dolecta_pushkini)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet, playwright and writer [Alexander Pushkin](/source/Alexander_Pushkin)) - *[Dolecta rubtsovi](/source/Dolecta_rubtsovi)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian poet [Nikolay Rubtsov](/source/Nikolay_Rubtsov)) - *[Dolecta saltykovishchedrini](/source/Dolecta_saltykovishchedrini)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer [Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin](/source/Mikhail_Saltykov-Shchedrin)) - *[Dolecta scariosa](/source/Dolecta_scariosa)* Herrich-Schäffer, 1854 (type species) - *[Dolecta stanyukovichi](/source/Dolecta_stanyukovichi)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer [Konstantin Stanyukovich](/source/Konstantin_Stanyukovich)) - *[Dolecta tolstoyi](/source/Dolecta_tolstoyi)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer [Leo Tolstoy](/source/Leo_Tolstoy)) - *[Dolecta turgenevi](/source/Dolecta_turgenevi)* Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev, 2020 (named after Russian writer, poet and playwright [Ivan Turgenev](/source/Ivan_Turgenev)) ## References 1. Naydenov, A. E.; Yakovlev, R. V.; Penco, F. C.; Sinyaev, V. V. (2020). "New data on Neotropical Carpenter-Moths of Subfamily Hypoptinae Neumoegen & Dyar, 1894 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). II. A review of the genus *Dolecta* Herrich-Schäffer,[1854], with description of seventeen new species". *Ecologica Montenegrina*. **35**: 82–114. [doi:10.37828/em.2020.35.7](https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2020.35.7) ## External links - [Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog](http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/butmoth/GenusList3.dsml) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Dolecta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolecta) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolecta?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.