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Taxon: Family Alucitidae Leach, 1815 - many-plumed moths (moth)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  [Leach, 1815], orth. corr.
Original name:  [Leach, 1815]. In Brewster's Edinburgh Ency. 9 (1): 135.
Subsequent spelling: 

Attributes

Justified emendation of suffix ("orth. corr.") [ICZN, 1999: Art. 34.1 (family)] Ref: ICZN, 1957. Opinion 450: 259 ("correction").
Name placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology [ICZN, 1999: Art. 80.6] Ref: ICZN, 1957. Opinion 450: Ruling (5)(g) (p. 259: "Name No. 141"). [new]

Types

Type, by designation under the plenary power: Alucita (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: ICZN, 1957: Ruling (1)(b)(7)(3) (p. 254; p. 259). [new]

Variants

Original spelling: Alucitides (Family) Leach, 1815, orth. inval. Ref: ICZN, 1957: 259, 262.
Incorrect spelling: Alucitaedes (Family) Billberg, 1820, orth. inval. Ref: ICZN, 1957: 262.
Incorrect spelling: Alucitides (Family) Leach, 1815, orth. inval. Ref: ICZN, 1957: 259, 262.
Incorrect spelling: Alucitina (Family) Zeller, 1841, orth. inval. Ref: ICZN, 1957: 262.
Incorrect spelling: Alucitites (Family) Newman, 1835, orth. inval. Ref: ICZN, 1957: 262.

Synonyms

Junior objective synonym: Orneodidae (Family) Herrich-Schaeffer, 1843, nom. illeg. Ref: ICZN, 1957: 263.

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: many-plumed moths Ref: J.B. Heppner, 1998b: 58.
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