Nemophora fluorites ( 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 : 15

Nemophora fluorites ( Meyrick, 1907)

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Nemotois fluorites : Meyrick 1907: 991–992.

Nemophora fluorites , type materials and revision: Hirowatari 2007: 27–32, 28 figs. 1, 2c, d (colour photographs of moths), 29 figs. 3c, d (colour photographs of moths), 30 figs. 5a, b (photographs and drawings of wing venation), 31 fig. 6 (drawing of male genitalia), 32 fig. 7 (drawing of female genitalia); Kozlov 2023: 15–17. Additional information: Liao et al. 2023: 50–51, 102 pl. 6 fig. 3 (colour photographs of moths), 112 pl. 11 fig. 7 (colour photograph of lectotype), 112 pl. 11 fig. 8 (colour photograph of the holotype of Adela suavis , junior subjective synonym of N. fluorites , erroneously referred to as the lectotype), 124 pl. 17 fig. 1 (photograph of male genitalia), 140 pl. 25 fig. 2 (photograph of female genitalia).

Distribution. India ( Meyrick 1907), continental China (Caradja 1938), Taiwan ( Wang et al. 2000), Myanmar ( Hirowatari 2007), Vietnam ( Hirowatari 2007).

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.