Cauchas is a genus of the fairy longhorn moth family (Adelidae). Among these, it belongs to subfamily Adelinae. The taxon "Cauchas" Philipp Christoph Zeller 1839 was originally created as a subgenus of the genus Adela Latreille 1796 but was raised to the genus level in 1980 by Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen .[1]
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| Cauchas rufimitrella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Adelidae |
| Subfamily: | Adelinae |
| Genus: | Cauchas Zeller, 1839 |
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Species
edit- Cauchas albiantennella (Burmann, 1943)
- Cauchas anatolica (Rebel, 1902)
- Cauchas breviantennella Nielsen & Johansson, 1980
- Cauchas brunnella Nielsen & Johansson, 1980
- Cauchas canalella (Eversmann, 1844)
- Cauchas cockerelli (Busck, 1915)
- Cauchas cyanella (Busck, 1915)
- Cauchas dietziella (Kearfott, 1908)
- Cauchas discalis Braun, 1925
- Cauchas fibulella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
- Cauchas florella (Staudinger, 1871)
- Cauchas leucocerella (Scopoli, 1763)
- Cauchas rufifrontella (Treitschke, 1833)
- Cauchas rufimitrella (Scopoli, 1763)
- Cauchas sedella (Busck, 1915)
- Cauchas simpliciella (Walsingham, 1880)
- Cauchas terskella Kuprijakov, 1994
- Cauchas tridesma (Meyrick, 1912)
References
edit- ^ Nielsen, Ebbe Schmidt (1980). "A cladistic analysis of the Holarctic genera of adelid moths (Lepidoptera: Incurvaroidea)". Insect Systematics and Evolution. 11 (2): 162-.
External links
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