Amicta mauretanica arabica (Wiltshire, 1949)

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Higher taxa:	Psychidae (family)/  Oiketicinae (subfamily)/  Acanthopsychini (tribe)/  Amicta (genus)/  Amicta mauretanica (species)/
Status:	Accepted
Authorship:	(Wiltshire, 1949)
Citation:	Acanthopsyche (Dasaratha) arabica sp. n.
Original genus:	Acanthopsyche
Publication:	Wiltshire E. P. 1949a. Middle East Lepidoptera, IX [sic, recte X]. New species and forms from Arabia and Persia, with a description of the genus Tamsola from Iraq.
Journal:	Bulletin of the Society Fouad I Entomology
Volume:	33
Issue:
Pagination:	371; pl. 1, fig. 20

Taxonomic note:

Transferred to Amicta by J. Bourgogne (1986b: 247).

Bourgogne J. 1986b. Lepidoptera: Fam. Psychidae from Saudi Arabia and Africa.

Scientific name	TypeStatus	Gender	Museum	Description	Country	Locality	Publication	URL
Amicta mauretanica arabica (Wiltshire, 1949)	Holotype	♂	NHMUK	Holotype ♂, genitalia slide 23425♂, NHMUK.	Saudi Arabia	[Saudi Arabia], Arabia, Buraiman, coastal plain near Jeddah, 12.xii.1944, leg. A. R. Waterston.

Distribution note:

Palaearctic: Egypt.

Scientific name	Country	Province	Publication	URL
Amicta mauretanica arabica (Wiltshire, 1949)	Djibouti		Bourgogne J. 1986b. Lepidoptera: Fam. Psychidae from Saudi Arabia and Africa. page 246
Amicta mauretanica arabica (Wiltshire, 1949)	Oman		Sobczyk T. 2011. Psychidae (Lepidoptera). – In: Nuss, M. (Ed.), World Catalogue of Insects 10. page 49
Amicta mauretanica arabica (Wiltshire, 1949)	Saudi Arabia		Wiltshire E. P. 1949a. Middle East Lepidoptera, IX [sic, recte X]. New species and forms from Arabia and Persia, with a description of the genus Tamsola from Iraq. page 371
Amicta mauretanica arabica (Wiltshire, 1949)	United Arab Emirates		Legrain A. & Wiltshire E. P. 1998. Provisional checklist of the Macro-Heterocera (Lepidoptera) of the UAE. page 5

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