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Species Adela singulella - Hodges#0220

Insect with very long antennae - Adela singulella

Adela singulella pair - Adela singulella - male - female

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Adeloidea (Fairy Moths and kin)

Family Adelidae (Fairy Moths)

Subfamily Adelinae

Genus Adela

Species singulella (Adela singulella - Hodges#0220)

Hodges Number

0220

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Author: Walsingham, 1880

Identification

Antenna more than 3x forewing length; forewing narrow, length about 3.4x width, bronzy with complete white transverse band or white along costa at outer 1/3.

Range

California, southern Mendocino, Napa and northern Marin Counties (typical form); west slope of the Sierra Nevada (600-6000') from El Dorado to Kern County, in the Coast Ranges of Santa Clara County southward, to San Luis Obispo County (unbanded form), thence into the San Gabriel Mountains.

Season

Mid-May to mid-June north of San Francisco Bay, the central Sierra Nevada and the San Gabriel Mountains; April in south Coast Range and southern Sierra Nevada.

Food

Gilia sp.

Print References

Powell, Jerry A. (1969). "A Synopsis of Nearctic Adelid Moths, with Descriptions of New Species (Incurvariidae)." Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 23(4):229-31

Powell, J.A., (1961). Notes on Adela singulella. in: Proc. Pacif. Coast Ent. Soc., 271st meeting. Pan-Pacif. Ent., 37: 63-64.

Walsingham, Thomas Lord (1880). "On some new and little known Species of Tineidae", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1890, pg. 80,

Walsingham, Thomas Lord (1889). Insect Life, Vol. II, pg. 285

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group – images of pinned adult (1)

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 31 December, 2015 - 9:21pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff
Last updated 14 August, 2022 - 9:15pm

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