''Adela croesella'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Adelidae 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 pa ...

. It is found in most of

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirel ...

. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan o ...

is 11–14 mm. Head ferruginous mixed with black. Antennae in male 2.5 black, tip white ; in female hardly 1.5, thickened with violet-black scales to above middle, remainder white. Forewings shining dark violet fuscous, more or less streaked suffusely between veins with golden - ochreous ; a straight deep yellow fascia close beyond middle, narrower costally, edged first with dark fuscous and then with narrow violet fasciae. Hindwings dark purplish fuscous.Meyrick, E., 1895 ''A Handbook of British Lepidoptera'' MacMillan, London Adults are on wing from late May to June. They are on wing during the day in sunshine and visit flowers. At first, the larvae probably feed on flowers of ''

Hippophae rhamnoides ''Hippophae rhamnoides'', also known as sea-buckthorn, is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeagnaceae, native to the cold-temperate regions of Europe and Asia. It is a spiny deciduous shrub. The plant is used in the food and cosmetic ...

'' or ''

Ligustrum vulgare ''Ligustrum vulgare'' (wild privet, also sometimes known as common privet or European privet) is a species of '' Ligustrum'' native to central and southern Europe, north Africa and southwestern Asia, from Ireland and southwestern Sweden south to ...

''. Older larvae built a portable case from leaf fragments and particles of soil and feed on fallen leaves.

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UKmoths

Fauna Europaea
Adelidae Moths of Europe Moths described in 1763 Moths of Asia Taxa named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli {{Adelidae-stub