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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 astrella - Hodges#0229.1 (Adela astrella)
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Fairy moth - Adela astrella
Copyright © 2013 margarethe brummermann

Fairy moth - Adela astrella
Montosa Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
September 12, 2013
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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 17 September, 2013 - 5:33pm
Last updated 16 August, 2023 - 10:46am

Moved
Moved from Adela.
… Steve Nanz, 16 August, 2023 - 10:46am login or register to post comments

Moved to Adela for now
Moved from Fairy Moths.
… Kyhl Austin, 31 December, 2015 - 9:38pm login or register to post comments

Very interesting find
The somewhat large eyes (intermediate for Adela), the widened bases of the antennae, and the bronzy wings with black-bordered silvery spots apically...are all somewhat reminiscent of A. ridingsella. But Tucson area is way out of range for that eastern species, and the apical pattern of that species seems more "silver-streaked"...as opposed to the nicely coherent black-bordered and rounded silvery spots here.

I asked Jerry Powell whether this may be an undescribed species and he replied:

"In 1987, Don Davis ID'd several undescribed species from Mexico in our collection (as yet unpublished) one of which could be this AZ sp., although my Mexican records were not in Sonora or Chihuahua. "
… Aaron Schusteff, 8 March, 2015 - 1:47am login or register to post comments

 
I was cllecting in AZ with Dave Wagner
and he also was convinced that we had more than one undescribed sp.
… margarethe brummermann, 8 March, 2015 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

Moved
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… Charley Eiseman, 8 December, 2013 - 11:48am login or register to post comments

Moved
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… john and jane balaban, 14 October, 2013 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

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