Adela aethiops R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875 ADELIDAE,   ADELOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moths are dark brown with three thin pale lines across each forewing. The antennae are nearly twice as long as the wings.

(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species was reportedly collected from Australia by Felder & Rogenhofer, although Walsingham thinks this is a mistake, and the only other record currently on-line for this species is from:

Mexico.

male,
drawing by Peter Carl Friedrich Geyer at the behest of Felder & Rogenhofer,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara, Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), Plate CXXXIX, fig. 1,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

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Further reading :

Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologischer Theil: Lepidoptera,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), p. 2, and also Plate 139, fig. 1.

Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham
Insecta, Lepidoptera-Heterocera,
Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, botany and archaeology,
Volume IV (1909-1915) p. 402, Fam 21, No. 1.

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(written 5 June 2014, updated 15 July 2026)