Synonymy of Alcis jubata jubata:

Phalaena dilatata Hufnagel, 1767 (nomen oblitum?)
Phalaena jubata Schalen (in Thunberg), 1788 (p. 75)
Alcis jubata (Schalen (in Thunberg), 1788)
Alcis jubata jubata (Schalen (in Thunberg), 1788)
Alcis jubatus (Schalen (in Thunberg), 1788))
Type locality: "Germania".
Geometra glabraria Huebner, 1799
Geometra teneraria Huebner, 1813
Deileptenia plancaria Huebner, 1825
Boarmia semiothisata Lenz, 1917

The meaning of the genus name is unclear and therefore it is difficult to establish its grammatical gender. Alcis may represent a variant spelling of Latin "alces" ("moose, elk"), or may be its proper genitive singular. It may also refer to a mythical pair of brothers, the Alcis, that were worshipped as gods by certain Germanic peoples. As such, the word is a plural form. Finally, it might refer to Alkis, the son of Aigyptos, (mythical) king of Egypt. Curtis (1826) does not explain the new name and thus it also may be a name without any special meaning. Note, however, that "jubatus, -a, um" is a proper Latin adjectival form ("having a mane") and therefore must agree in gender with the genus name. Provisionally I use Alcis as a meaningless word of feminine gender in order to preserve the widely used form "jubata" of the species epithet.