Nemophora karafutonis ( Matsumura, 1932 )

Liao, Cheng-Qing, Hirowatari, Toshiya, Yagi, Sadahisa, Wang, Min, Wang, Xing & Huang, Guo-Hua, 2023, The fauna of the family Adelidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Adeloidea) from China, Zootaxa 5348 (1), pp. 1-152 : 64

(73) Nemophora karafutonis ( Matsumura, 1932)

Nemotois karafutonis Matsumura, 1932: 124 , pl. IV, fig. 13 (TL: Japan, Toyohara; SEHU).

Nemophora karafutonis: Kozlov 1997b: 43 ; Dubatolov 2007: 43 ( Russia); Hirowatari 2013: 108, fig. 3-08-26, 27, 28 ( Japan); Sun et al. 2022: 315, figs. 14, 37 (review).

Nemophora moriokensis Okano, 1957: 63 , pl. 1, figs. 1, 2 (TL: Japan, North Honshu).

Nemophora karafutonis moriokensis ( Okano, 1957) : Umetsu 2014: 6, fig. 15 (Akita, Japan).

Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished by the tegumen having a triangular plate extending from the middle to the posterior 1/3; the uncus is dome-shaped; the median process of the transtilla is triangular; and the phallus has a pair of sclerotized belts in the distal 1/3 ( Sun et al. 2022).

Specimens examined. Specimens from China were not available in this study.

Distribution. China (Liaoning); Japan, Russia, South Korea.

Remarks. This species was first recorded in China by Sun et al. (2022).