Cauchas

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]

Cauchas
Cauchas rufimitrella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Adelidae
Subfamily:	Adelinae
Genus:	Cauchas Zeller, 1839
Species
Several, see text
Synonyms
Cyanauges Braun, 1919 (preocc. Philippi, 1865) Chlamydia Braun, 1921

Species

• 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)