8. ADELIDAE

15.0-20.0mm. Mid April to early June. Forewing yellowish grey, reticulated brownish. Frons pale ochreous yellow, vertex pale ochreous brown.

13.0-17.0mm. May to early July. Forewing comparatively short and rounded, shining pale ochreous, indistinctly, rather uniformly brownish strigulated; an ill-defined dark spot at end of cell. Hindwing pale grey with cilia pure yellow basally and yellowish grey in distal half. Frons white, vertex ochreous yellow.

Occasionally whole hindwing with narrow scales.

13.0-17.0mm. May and June. Hindwing with cilia dark grey, concolorous with wing. Frons pale greyish brown, vertex yellowish white with white hair-scales between antennae.

April to June. Forewing ochreous yellow, faintly strigulated darker, discal spot absent. Hindwing upperside wholly narrow-scaled in male, but with broader scales in apical area. Frons yellowish white, vertex ochreous yellow.

13.0-17.0mm. May and June. Forewing yellowish, brown at base costa. Frons yellowish white, vertex ochreous yellow.

13.0-17.0mm. May and June. Forewing in male greyish brown, in female greyish ochreous, both sexes brown in basal area and in costal half. Frons white to pale ochreous yellow; vertex ochreous yellow to ochre, rarely shading to brownish posteriorly.

13.0-16.0mm. July (in England). Frons and vertex in male black, in female ferruginous. Forewing with short, black subcostal dash.

Occasionally an ill-defined slightly darker transverse shadow occurs in middle of forewing.

Forewing occasionally with small pale spots.

Early May to late June. Frons and vertex black. Antenna black, apical fourth white; in male slightly longer than costa forewing, in female shorter than costa. Forewing coppery bronzy, purplish tinged; sometimes a second pale yellowish spot near base.

14.0-15.0mm. Mid May to mid June. Frons and vertex brownish. Antenna in male not thickened in basal half, two and a half to three times length costa forewing; antenna in female thickened in basal half, one and a quarter length costa forewing. Forewing with ground colour brown.

Mid May to mid July. Frons and vertex ferruginous yellowish. Antenna in male slightly thickened basally, three and a half times length costa forewing; in female antenna not thickened, length one and a third times length costa. Forewing with ground colour shining dark brown.

Late May to mid July. Frons and vertex ferruginous. Antenna in male two and a half times length costa forewing, in female antenna in basal half thickened and densely scaled blackish brown, length slightly more than length costa. Forewing with ground colour shining dark violet brown.

10.0-13.0mm. Late June to late July. Frons and vertex in male slightly thickened basally, black, in female ferruginous. Antenna in male thickened basally but gradually narrowing from scapus to one third, length one and two thirds length of costa forewing; in female not thickened, one and a fifth length of costa. Forewing golden bronzy, becoming coppery postmedially.

10.0-12.0mm. Late May to mid August. Vertex ferruginous yellow. Antenna in male not thickened in basal third, but with prostrate pectination on segments 8-12, length two and a half length costa forewing; in female thickened in basal third, without pectinations, length one and a third length costa. Forewing purplish.

9.5-12.5 mm. Late April to early July. Vertex ferruginous yellow. Antenna in male not thickened basally, twice length costa forewing; in female slightly thickened basally, one and a half length costa. Forewing shining brassy bronzy.

12.5-17.0 mm. Mid April to early July. Antenna in male not thickened, but with prostrate pectinations on segments 9 and 10, length three times length costa forewing; in female slightly thickened basally, without pectinations, length one and a half length costa. Forewing with costa tinged coppery.

13.5-15.5mm. March to May. Antenna slightly thickened basally, prostrate pectinations on segments 11 and 12, length two and a half times length costa forewing. Forewing costally and distally purplish.

Late June to mid August. Antenna in male three times length costa forewing, in female two and a half times length costa.

13.5-15.5mm. March to May. Antenna without pectinations, length one and a quarter length of costa forewing. Forewing costally and distally purplish.

13.0-16.6mm. June to August. Forewing with distal area dark coppery, tinged purplish; an ill-defined brownish violet transverse shadow in middle of wing. Antenna in male three times length of costa forewing, in female one and a fifth length of costa. In The Netherlands most probably partenogenetic.

13.0-16.0mm. Mid June to early August. Forewing almost wholly with same ground colour; the ill-defined transverse shadow in middle of wing broad and tinged blackish blue.