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Adelidae : Adelinae

Cauchas rufimitrella

CAUCHAS rufimitrella (Scopoli, 1763)
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Life Cycle Guide - Adult Only
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Description
Vernacular Name: Meadow Long-horn
Wingspan: 9-12mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - excluding (Azores,Balearic Is., Bulgaria,Canary Isles,Corsica,Crete,Cyprus,Greece,Madeira,Malta, Portugal, Sardinai,Sicily & Ukraine)
UK Distribution: Common throughout the British Isles except further north
UK Conservation Status -
  • Common = > 300 10km squares
European Conservation Status -
  • Least Concern
Original Species Name -
  • Phalaena rufimitrella (Scopoli,1763)
Type Species - Caucus
  • Tinea fibulella ([Denis & Schiffermüller],1775)
Type Locality -
  • In sylvestribus, non rara, in floribus Majo M.(In the wild, it is not rare, the flowers of the major M.)
Flight Period: May-June
Habitat: Damp Grassland pastures
Similar Species -
  • Adela reaumurella (Linnaeus, 1758)
Larva: Early instar larva feeds within seedpods subsequently moving to leaves of larval food plant
Overwinters as: Pupa
Observations: The forewing of this species is matallic golden green with the costa being tinged reddish or or purplish (see photo 1 below).
This longhorn moth has antennae that are twice as long as the forewing in the male and just less than 1.5 times the forewing length with the female.
The moth flies in sunshine during the day sometimes in reasonable numbers.
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Larval Food Plants Worldwide
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Animalia
Eumetozoa
Arthropoda
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Lepidoptera
Adeloidea
Adelidae
Adelinae
CAUCHAS Zeller, 1839
Cauchas rufimitrella (Scopoli, 1763)
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Tinea fibulella ([Denis & Schiffermüller],1775)
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PHALAENA rufimitrella (Scopoli,1763)
= Adela reskovitsiella Szent-Ivany, 1945
= Adela rufimitrella Scopoli, 1763
= Adela uhrikmeszarosiella Szent-Ivany, 1945
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Entomologia Carniolica exhibens insecta Carnioliæ indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates. Methodo Linnæana. - pp. [1-35], 1-420, [1]. Vindobonae. (Trattner) : Title Page : p.251 - n.649
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In sylvestribus, non rara, in floribus Majo M.(In the wild, it is not rare, the flowers of the major M.)