Nemophora tanakai Hirowatari, 2007

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 : 15

Nemophora tanakai Hirowatari, 2007

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Nemophora tanakai : Hirowatari 2007: 29–30, 28 figs. 2a, b (colour photographs of moths), 29 figs. 3a, b (colour photographs of moths), 29 fig. 4 (drawing of head), 30 figs. 5c, d (photographs and drawings of wing venation), 33 fig. 8 (drawing of male genitalia), 34 fig. 9 (drawing of female genitalia). Additional information: Liao et al. 2023: 53, 102 pl. 6 fig. 2 (colour photographs of moths), 124 pl. 17 fig. 4 (photographs of male genitalia), 146 pl. 26 fig. 2 (photograph of female genitalia).

Distribution. Continental China ( Wang & Kishida 2011), Vietnam ( Hirowatari 2007).

Comments. The morphological difference between N. tanakai and N. fluorites is rather small ( Hirowatari 2007). Liao et al. (2023) published one barcode for each of these species; until the variation within each species is documented, the status of N. tanakai remains insufficiently supported.

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. Adults of Nemophora spp. 1, N. bifasciatella Issiki, 1930, female, from Doi Inthanon National Park, Thailand; 2, N. nieukerkeni Kozlov, sp. nov., male, holotype, from Phan Xi Pang, Vietnam; 3, N. karsholti Kozlov, sp. nov., male, paratype, from Doi Inthanon National Park, Thailand; 4, ditto, female, paratype, from the same locality; 5, N. szabokyi Kozlov, sp. nov., male, holotype, from Changwat Nan, Thailand; 6, N. augantha (Meyrick, 1907), male, lectotype, from Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India; 7, N. fluorites (Meyrick, 1907), male, from Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India; 8, N. tanakai Hirowatari, 2007, male, paratype, from Tam Dao, Vietnam. Scale: 2 mm.