Cauchas
| Cauchas | |
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| Cauchas rufimitrella | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Adelidae |
| Subfamily: | Adelinae |
| Genus: | Cauchas Zeller, 1839 |
| Species | |
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Several, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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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 .