| Adelphia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Subfamily: | Phycitinae |
| Genus: | Adelphia Heinrich, 1956 [1] |
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Adelphia is a monotypic snout moth genus in the subfamily Phycitinae. It was described by Carl Heinrich in 1956. [1] Its only species is Adelphia petrella, which was originally described as Pempelia petrella by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1846. It is found in North America, [2] from New Jersey to Florida and westward to Iowa and Texas. [3]
Another species, Adelphia ochripunctella , was formerly included in this genus, [4] but is now placed in the genus Pseudadelphia .
