Nemophora chionites ( Meyrick, 1907 )

Kozlov, Mikhail V., 2024, Fairy moths of the genus Nemophora Hoffmannsegg, 1798 (Lepidoptera: Adelidae) from Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, Zootaxa 5423 (1), pp. 1-66 : 23

Nemophora chionites ( Meyrick, 1907)

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Nemotois chionites : Meyrick 1907: 990.

Nemophora chionites , type materials and revision: Kozlov 1995: 471–472, 461 figs. 9, 10 (b&w photographs of moths), 463 fig. 12 (distribution map), 464 fig. 13 (drawing of male head), 464 fig. 19 (drawing of forewing base), 467 figs. 40–44 (drawings of male genitalia); Kozlov 2023: 21–22, 60 figs. 19, 20 (colour photographs of moths), 67 fig. 80 (drawing of forewing pattern). Additional information: Liao et al. 2023: 8, 21–23, 94 pl. 2 fig. 3 (colour photographs of moth), 116 pl. 13 fig. 3 (photographs of male genitalia), 131 pl. 21 fig. 3 (photograph of female genitalia).

Distribution. India ( Meyrick 1907), continental China ( Liao et al. 2023), Thailand ( Kozlov 1995).

Figures

FIGURES 17–24. Adults of Nemophora spp. 17, N. cleodoxa (Meyrick, 1922), male, lectotype, from Minbu, Myanmar; 18, ditto, female, paralectotype, from the same locality; 19, N. pyrotechna (Meyrick, 1912), male, from Kadan Kyun, Myanmar; 20, ditto, female, from the same locality; 21, N. chionites (Meyrick, 1907), male, from Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, India; 22, N. griseella (Walsingham, 1880), male, from Shillong, Meghalaya, India; 23, N. ischnodesma (Meyrick, 1928), male, from Pidaung, Myanmar; 24, N. punctifasciella Kozlov, sp. nov., male, holotype, from Sumbawa Island, Indonesia. Scale: 2 mm.