''Cauchas'' is a
genus 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 (Adelidae). Among these, it belongs to
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoologi ...
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
''Cauchas anatolica'' is a moth of the family Adelidae. It is found in Greece and Turkey.
The wingspan
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''
(Rebel, 1902)
* ''
Cauchas breviantennella
''Cauchas breviantennella'' is a moth of the Adelidae family. It is found in Sweden, Finland and northern Russia.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For ex ...
''
Nielsen & Johansson, 1980
* ''
Cauchas brunnella
''Cauchas brunnella'' is a moth of the Adelidae family. It is found in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes ...
''
Nielsen & Johansson, 1980
* ''
Cauchas canalella
''Cauchas canalella'' is a moth of the family Adelidae. It is found in Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern A ...
''
(Eversmann, 1844)
* ''
Cauchas cockerelli''
(Busck, 1915)
* ''
Cauchas cyanella''
(Busck, 1915)
* ''
Cauchas dietziella
''Cauchas dietziella'' is a moth of the family Adelidae or ''fairy longhorn moths''. It was described by William D. Kearfott in 1908. It is found in North America, including Alabama and Massachusetts
Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Ma ...
''
(Kearfott, 1908)
* ''
Cauchas discalis
''Cauchas discalis'' is a moth of the family Adelidae or fairy longhorn moths. It was described by Annette Frances Braun in 1925. It is found in the US state of California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, loc ...
''
Braun, 1925
* ''
Cauchas fibulella
''Cauchas fibulella'' is a day-active moth of the Adelidae family. It is known from most of Europe, although there are no records from Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, most of the Balkans, Belarus, southern Russia and the Mediterranean Islands.
Th ...
''
(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
* ''
Cauchas florella''
(Staudinger, 1871)
* ''
Cauchas leucocerella
''Cauchas leucocerella'' is a moth of the Adelidae family. It is found in most of Europe, except Ireland, Great Britain, the Benelux, the Iberian Peninsula, Switzerland, Denmark, Fennoscandia, Estonia and Lithuania.
The wingspan
The wingspa ...
''
(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 wingspan of the moth range ...
''
(Scopoli, 1763)
* ''
Cauchas sedella
''Cauchas sedella'' is a moth of the Adelidae family or fairy longhorn moths. It was described by August Busck in 1915. It is found in North America, including Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion ...
''
(Busck, 1915)
* ''
Cauchas simpliciella''
(Walsingham, 1880)
* ''
Cauchas terskella''
Kuprijakov, 1994
* ''
Cauchas tridesma
''Cauchas tridesma'' is a moth of the Adelidae family. It is found in Russia and Turkey.
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– ...
''
(Meyrick, 1912)
References
External links
Cauchas at funet
Adelidae
Adeloidea genera
Taxa named by Philipp Christoph Zeller
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