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Moth genus in family Adelidae

Cauchas
Cauchas rufimitrella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Adelidae
Subfamily: Adelinae
Genus: Cauchas
Zeller, 1839
Species

Several, see text

Synonyms
  • Cyanauges Braun, 1919 (preocc. Philippi, 1865)
  • Chlamydia Braun, 1921

Cauchas is a genus of the fairy longhorn moth family (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 Latreille 1796 but was raised to the genus level in 1980 by Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen .

Species

References

  1. Nielsen, Ebbe Schmidt (1980). "A cladistic analysis of the Holarctic genera of adelid moths (Lepidoptera: Incurvaroidea)". Insect Systematics and Evolution. 11 (2): 162-.

External links

Media related to Cauchas at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers
Cauchas


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