Adela singulella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Adelidae
- Genus
- Adela
- Species
- Adela singulella
- Scientific Name
- Adela singulella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Adela singulella
Adela singulella is a moth of the family Adelidae or fairy longhorn moths. It was described by Walsingham in 1880. It is found in California.
Adults are on the wing from mid May to mid June north of San Francisco Bay, the central Sierra Nevada and the San Gabriel Mountains. In the southern part of the Coast Range and the southern Sierra Nevada, adults have been recorded in April.
The larvae feed on the buds of Gilia capitata and Gilia achilleifolia.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
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- 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
- Adela xanthoceros