Adela croesella

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Adela croesella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Adelidae
Genus: Adela
Species:
A. croesella
Binomial name
Adela croesella
(Scopoli, 1763)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena croesellaScopoli, 1763
  • Adela religatellaZeller, 1850

Adela croesella is a moth of the family Adelidae. It is found in most of Europe.

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The wingspan is 11–14 mm. The head is ferruginous mixed with black. The antennae in male 2.5 [the length of the forewing], black, the tip white; in female hardly 1.5, thickened with violet-black scales to above middle, remainder white. The forewings are shining dark violet fuscous, more or less streaked suffusely between veins with golden-ochreous with a straight deep yellow fascia close beyond middle, narrower costally, edged first with dark fuscous and then with narrow violet fasciae. The hindwings are dark purplish fuscous. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Adults are on wing from late May to June. They are on wing during the day in sunshine and visit flowers. [14.7 x 21.2 cm] At first, the larvae probably feed on flowers of Hippophae rhamnoides or Ligustrum vulgare . Older larvae built a portable case from leaf fragments and particles of soil and feed on fallen leaves.

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References

  1. ↑ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London
  2. ↑ Langmaid, J. R., Palmer, S. M. & Young, M. R. [eds]. 2018 A Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of Great Britain and Ireland [3rd ed.]Reading, Berkshire. British Entomological and Natural History Society
  3. ↑ Zagulajev, A.K., 1987 Adelidae ; in G.S. Medvedev (ed.): Keys to the insects of the europaean part of the USSR, Vol.IV: Lepidoptera, part 1 (english translation), Oxonian Press Pvt.Ltd., New Dehli, 1987
  4. ↑ lepiforum.de includes images PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  5. ↑ Sterling, P. and Parsons, M. 2012 Field Guide to the Micro Moths of Great Britain and Ireland Dorset British Wildlife Publishing, 2012 ISBN 10: 0956490212 / ISBN 13: 9780956490216 - 2nd edition (Bloomsbury Wildlife Guides)


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