Fairy moth on Cream Cups - Adela thorpella

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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Fairy Moths and kin (Adeloidea) » Fairy Moths (Adelidae) » Adelinae » Adela » Adela thorpella - Hodges#0223 (Adela thorpella)

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Fairy moth on Cream Cups - Adela thorpella -

Mount Burdell Open Space Preserve, Marin County, California, USA

This is Adela thorpella...nearly everything relating to identification in this post from San Mateo Co. applies here as well, including the habitat...which was also serpentine grassland.

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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 28 March, 2015 - 12:07am
Last updated 26 April, 2015 - 9:03pm

to find Adela thorpella

Josiah,

see the Essig Museum California Moth Specimens Database:
https://essigdb.berkeley.edu/cgi/calmoth_query?table=calmoth&query_src=eme_calmoth&rel-genus=equals&where-genus=Adela&rel-species=equals&where-species=thorpella&rel-location=contains&where-location=&rel-county=equals&where-county=any&rel-collector=contains&where-collector=&rel-specimen_loc=equals&where-specimen_loc=any&rel-identified_by=contains&where-identified_by=&orderby=genus%2Cspecies&Search=Search

They are also quite common near Shingle Springs in western El Dorado County. Write for exact details if you want to.

… Al Ludtke, 27 January, 2021 - 4:49pm

Nice moth!

I'd love to find these someday. A. trigrapha is flying SLO county right now.

Thanks for sharing!

… Josiah Gilbert, 28 March, 2015 - 12:31pm

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