Nemophora aurora Kozlov, 1997

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 aurora Kozlov, 1997

( Fig. 9 )

Nemophora aurora : Kozlov 1997b: 14–15, 14 fig. 1 (drawing of forewing pattern), 15 figs. 3–7 (drawings of male genitalia).

Other material. Vietnam. 1 ♀, Sa Pa , Fan Si Pang Mts., 25.–30.iii.1995 (Mey) ( ZMB) .

Distribution. Taiwan ( Kozlov 1997b), Vietnam (this study).

Comments. The female from Vietnam ( Fig. 9 ) differs from type specimens of N. aurora by the absence of multiple thin dark brown longitudinal lines in the apical part of the forewing .

Figures

FIGURES 9–16. Adults of Nemophora spp. 9, N. aurora Kozlov, 1997, female, from Sa Pa, Vietnam; 10, N. aglaospila (Meyrick, 1928), male, from S. E. Borneo, Indonesia; 11, ditto, female, from Nam-Lik Eco-Village, Vientiane Province, Laos; 12, N. sinicella (Walker, 1863), male, from Maymyo, Shan Hills, Myanmar; 13, ditto, female, from Huai Nam Dang, Thailand; 14, N. ahenea Stringer, 1930, male, holotype, from Iwawakisan, Kii Province, Honshu, Japan; 15, ditto, female, from Mt. Mikusa, Hyogo Prefecture, Honshu, Japan; 16, N. vietnamensis Kozlov, sp. nov., male, holotype, from Quảng Chu, Vietnam. Scale: 2 mm.