Nemophora zheduoshana Liao, Hirowatari & Huang, 2021

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 : 21-22

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5348.1.1

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scientific name

Nemophora zheduoshana Liao, Hirowatari & Huang, 2021
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(14) Nemophora zheduoshana Liao, Hirowatari & Huang, 2021 View in CoL

(Plates II-2, XIII-1)

Nemophora zheduoshana Liao et al., 2021: 18 View in CoL , figs. 1A, C, E, 2A, 3 (TL: China, Sichuan, Kangding, Zheduoshan ; HUNAU).

Diagnosis. This species is very similar to N. sichuana in the forewing pattern, but can differs from the latter by the following characters: the central fascia is slightly interrupted in the middle; the subapical spot is stilliform; the abdomen is dark brown to black uniformly; the eyes are relatively larger with ca. 0.78 of eye size index; the valva is widely separated in ventral view; and the sacculus is only slightly swollen in the basal part.

Specimen examined. [ S ichuan] 1♁ (holotype), Zheduoshan (4,200 m), Kangding City, 2004.VIII.4, M. Wang & L.S. Chen leg. ( HUNAU) .

Distribution. China (Sichuan).

Remarks. Compared with other members of the sichuana species group, this species occurs in a mountainous locality with an elevation of approximately 4,200 m ( Liao et al. 2021).

3.3 Nemophora askoldella species group

Nemophora askoldella View in CoL group ( Kozlov 1995: 461)

Diagnosis. The askoldella species group can be distinguished by the following features: the compound eyes are relatively large, eye size index is 0. 9– 1.1 in male and 0.6–0.7 in female; the proximal segments of the male antenna are dorsolaterally covered with dark brown or blackish scales; the female antenna has a characteristic brush on flagellar segments 18–23; the female antenna is 1.1–1.3 × length of the forewing; the background color of the forewing is gray, randomly mixed with dark and light scales, hindwing base white and translucent; the forewing lacks longitudinal stripes, but the base of radial stem has small dark spots; the head light color, usually white, gray, or silver-gray.

Remarks. This species group includes five species: N. griseella ( Walsingham, 1880) ( India, Nepal, Myanmar), N. ischnodesma (Meyrick, 1928) ( India, Myanmar), N. cassiterites ( Meyrick, 1907) ( India) , N. askoldella ( Millière, 1879) ( China, Russia, Japan, Korea), and N. chionites ( Meyrick, 1907) ( India, Thailand). Here, N. chionites is first reported in southern China.

Key to species of the askoldella View in CoL group based on external morphology

1 Forewing transverse central fascia approximately equal in width; labial palpus relatively short, not exceeding vertical eye diameter................................................................................... N. askoldella View in CoL

- Forewing transverse central fascia twice as wide at costa than at termen; labial palpus very long, about 2 × vertical eye diameter.................................................................................... N. chionites View in CoL

Key to species of the askoldella View in CoL group based on male genitalia

1 Vinculum relatively short, about 2.4 × as long as valva; lateral margin of valva nearly parallel to the central axis; suspensorium relatively short, slightly beyond posterior margin of vinculum......................................... N. askoldella View in CoL

- Vinculum relatively long, about 2.6 × as long as valva; tip of valva distinctly oblique outwardly, lateral margin about 30-degree angle with the central axis; suspensorium long, far beyond posterior margin of vinculum..................... N. chionites View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Adelidae

Genus

Nemophora

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Adelidae

Genus

Nemophora

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Adelidae

Genus

Nemophora

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Adelidae

Genus

Nemophora

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Adelidae

Genus

Nemophora

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Adelidae

Genus

Nemophora

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Adelidae

Genus

Nemophora

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Adelidae

Genus

Nemophora

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Adelidae

Genus

Nemophora

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Adelidae

Genus

Nemophora

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Adelidae

Genus

Nemophora

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Adelidae

Genus

Nemophora

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Adelidae

Genus

Nemophora

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Adelidae

Genus

Nemophora

Loc

Nemophora zheduoshana Liao, Hirowatari & Huang, 2021

Liao, Cheng-Qing, Hirowatari, Toshiya, Yagi, Sadahisa, Wang, Min, Wang, Xing & Huang, Guo-Hua 2023
2023
Loc

Nemophora zheduoshana

Liao, C. Q. & Hirowatari, T. & Huang, G. H. 2021: 18
2021
Loc

Nemophora askoldella

Kozlov, M. V. 1995: 461
1995
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