Adela ridingsella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Adelidae
- Genus
- Adela
- Species
- Adela ridingsella
- Scientific Name
- Adela ridingsella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Adela ridingsella
Adela ridingsella, Ridings' fairy moth, is a moth of the Adelidae family or fairy longhorn moths. It was described by James Brackenridge Clemens in 1864. It is widespread in eastern North America, from Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Maine to Pennsylvania and the mountains of North Carolina. Adults are on wing from June to July.
Larvae found in petiole galls on Parthenocissus quinquefolia might belong to this species. The larvae later formed external cases.
...Adela ridingsella in languages:
- English
- Ridings' Fairy Moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Adela albicinctella
- Adela astrella
- Adela australis
- Adela caeruleella
- Adela collicolella
- Adela croesella
- Adela culminicola
- Adela cuneella
- Adela cuprella
- Adela droseropa
- Adela eldorada
- Adela electella
- Adela flammeusella
- Adela gymnota
- Adela homalella
- Adela luminaris
- Adela luteocilis
- Adela mazzolella
- Adela metallica
- Adela natalensis
- Adela nobilis
- Adela oplerella
- Adela orientella
- Adela paludicolella
- Adela pantherella
- Adela praepilosa
- Adela punctiferella
- Adela purpurea
- Adela reaumurella
- Adela repetitella
- Adela ridingsella
- Adela rufimitrella
- Adela septentrionella
- Adela siccana
- Adela singulella
- Adela stenonipha
- Adela stenoptera
- Adela suffusa
- Adela thorpella
- Adela trigrapha
- Adela tsaratanana
- Adela violella
- Adela viridella
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