''Cauchas'' is a
genus
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of the
fairy longhorn moth
The Adelidae or fairy longhorn moths are a family of monotrysian moths in the lepidopteran infraorder Heteroneura. The family was first described by Charles Théophile Bruand d'Uzelle in 1851. Most species have at least partially metallic ...
family
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(Adelidae). Among these, it belongs to
subfamily Adelinae.
The taxon "Cauchas" Philipp Christoph Zeller 1839 was originally created as a subgenus of the genus ''
Adela
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'' Latreille 1796 but was raised to the genus level in 1980 by Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen .
Species
* ''
Cauchas albiantennella''
(Burmann, 1943)
* ''
Cauchas anatolica''
(Rebel, 1902)
* ''
Cauchas breviantennella''
Nielsen & Johansson, 1980
* ''
Cauchas brunnella''
Nielsen & Johansson, 1980
* ''
Cauchas canalella''
(Eversmann, 1844)
* ''
Cauchas cockerelli''
(Busck, 1915)
* ''
Cauchas cyanella
''Cauchas cyanella'' is a moth of the family Adelidae or fairy longhorn moths. It was described by August Busck
Augustus Busck (February 18, 1870 – March 7, 1944) was a Danish-American entomologist with the United States Department of ...
''
(Busck, 1915)
* ''
Cauchas dietziella''
(Kearfott, 1908)
* ''
Cauchas discalis''
Braun, 1925
* ''
Cauchas fibulella''
(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
* ''
Cauchas florella
''Cauchas florella'' is a moth of the Adelidae family. It is found in Russia and Turkey.
References
Moths described in 1871
Adelidae
Moths of Asia
Moths of Europe
{{Adelidae-stub ...
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(Staudinger, 1871)
* ''
Cauchas leucocerella''
(Scopoli, 1763)
* ''
Cauchas rufifrontella
''Cauchas rufifrontella'' is a moth of the Adelidae family. It is found in most of Europe, except Ireland, Great Britain, the Benelux, the Iberian Peninsula, Switzerland, Fennoscandia, the Baltic region, Bulgaria and Ukraine.
The wingspan is 9� ...
''
(Treitschke, 1833)
* ''
Cauchas rufimitrella
''Cauchas rufimitrella'' is a diurnal lepidopteran from the family Adelidae, the fairy long horn moths. It is found in almost all of Europe, except Portugal, Ukraine and the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula
The Balkans ( ), al ...
''
(Scopoli, 1763)
* ''
Cauchas sedella''
(Busck, 1915)
* ''
Cauchas simpliciella
''Cauchas simpliciella'' is a moth of the Adelidae family or ''fairy longhorn moths''. It was described by Walsingham in 1880. It is found from Montana to the Pacific north-west of North America
North America is a continent in the ...
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(Walsingham, 1880)
* ''
Cauchas terskella
''Cauchas terskella'' is a moth of the Adelidae family or ''fairy longhorn moths''. It was described by Kuprijanov in 1994. It is found in south-eastern Kazakhstan.
References
Adelidae
Moths described in 1994
Insects of Central Asia ...
''
Kuprijakov, 1994
* ''
Cauchas tridesma''
(Meyrick, 1912)
References
External links
Cauchas at funet
Adelidae
Adeloidea genera
Taxa named by Philipp Christoph Zeller
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