Nemophora divina ( Caradja, 1939 )

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 : 45-46

(45) Nemophora divina ( Caradja, 1939)

(Plate XI-5)

Nemotois divina Caradja, 1939: 14 ( China, Shansi, Mien-shan [Shanxi Prov., Ho Shan ]; MINGA).

Nemotois divinia [sic!]: Hua 2005: 2 (list of China).

Nemophora divina: Kozlov 1997e: 139 , figs. 5, 8–12 (review).

Diagnosis. This species can be easily distinguished by the continued transverse central fascia of the forewing and the apex of the medial valvar lobe at 1/2 valvar length.

Specimen examined. [ S hanxi] 1♁, Holotype deposited in MINGA with the labels: “Mien-shan [Ho Shan] (Prov. Shansi [Shanxi]) / Mittlere Ĥhe ca. 1500 m / 13.6.1937. H. Ĥne”; “ Nemotois / divina / Car. / Type ”; “ Romänia [along the left margin] / HOLOTYPE / Nemotois / divina / ♁ Car ” ( MINGA).

Distribution. China (Shanxi).

Remarks. The type specimen is deposited in MINGA with the antenna and legs absent. The abdomen was dissected by Mikhail Kozlov and the male genitalia are preserved in an ampoule. This species is endemic to Shanxi Province, and no collection has been recorded since its first description.

Diakonoff (1951) described a novel species, Nemophora divina Diakonoff, 1951 , based on a Javanese specimen with type information “ West Java, Mts. Gedé-Pangrango, Tjisarua Zuid Est., 1000 m, 21.v.1950, L.J. Toxopeus leg.”. Diakonoff provided the male genitalia illustration and noted it as belonging to the N. augantha species group. This is a typical case of homonyms after Kozlov (1997e) was combined with this species. According to ICZN (1999: Art.60.3, Art. 72.7), Kozlov (2023a) proposed a new replacement name as Nemophora diakonoffi Kozlov, 2023 for N. divina Diakonoff, 1951 .