Nemophora chionites ( Meyrick, 1907 )

Kozlov, Mikhail V., 2023, Fairy moths of the genus Nemophora Hoffmannsegg, 1798 (Lepidoptera: Adelidae) of India and Sri Lanka, Zootaxa 5300 (1), pp. 1-81 : 21

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Nemophora chionites ( Meyrick, 1907) View in CoL

( Figs. 19, 20 View FIGURES 17–24 , 80 View FIGURES 69–92 )

Nemotois chionites: Meyrick 1907: 990 View in CoL .

Lectotype ♁ (designated by Kozlov 1995): India, Meghalaya, Khasi Hills (approx. 25 o 35′ N, 91 o 36′ E); labelled: 8 mm circle with violet border, print ‘Lecto-│type’; 5 × 10 mm, print + black ink ‘Khasi Hills │ Assam. │D. 1906’; 13 × 16 mm, black ink + print ‘ Nemotois │ chionites │ Meyr. 3/4 │ E. Meyrick det. │ in Meyrick Coll.’; 6 × 13 mm, print ‘Meyrick Coll. │ B. M. 1938–290’; 8 × 18 mm, print ‘ LECTOTYPE ♁ │ Nemotois chionites │ Meyrick, 1907 │ teste M. Kozlov 1995 ’ (NHM) [examined]. Paralectotypes. 1 ♁, labelled: 8 mm circle with blue border, print ‘Para-│lecto-│type’; 5 × 10 mm, print + black ink ‘Khasi Hills │ Assam. │D. 1906’; 13 × 16 mm, black ink + print ‘ Nemotois │ chionites │ Meyr. x/4 │ E. Meyrick det. │ in Meyrick Coll.’ [x = 4]; 6 × 13 mm, print ‘Meyrick Coll. │ B. M. 1938–290’; 8 × 18 mm, print ‘ PARALECTOTYPE ♁ │ Nemotois chionites │ Meyrick, 1907 │ teste M. Kozlov 1995 ’. 2 ♁, all labels as in previous paralectotype, except the date ‘.10.1906’ [x=1, 2]. One of these paralectotypes bears the label: 8 × 13 mm, print ‘B. M. │ Genitalia slide │ No. 27805’ (all in NHM) [examined].

Nemotois chionites: Meyrick 1912a: 7, 1912b: 9 View in CoL ; Clarke 1955: 84.

Nemophora chionites: Kozlov 1995: 471‒472 View in CoL , figs. 9, 10, 13, 19, 40‒44; Das & Singh 2022: 264 View Cited Treatment .

Other material. India. Meghalaya. 13 ♁ 3 ♀, Cherrapunji, x.1894 (Doncaster); 4 ♁, Khasi Hills, 1898‒1899 (Doncaster); 2 ♁ 2 ♀, Shillong, ix‒x.1918 (Fletcher) . Thailand. 1 ♁, 40 km SW Chiang Mai, Doi Inthanon NP, 1700 m, 25‒27.viii.1987 (Allen) (all in NHM) .

Diagnosis. Nemophora chionites differs from all other species of the askoldella species-group ( Kozlov 1995) recorded in India ( N. cassionites , N. griseella and N. ischnodesma ; Figs. 21‒26 View FIGURES 17–24 View FIGURES 25–32 ) by very long PLB (2 × vertical eye diameter) covered with long dense piliform scales, white costal spot in the apical part of the forewing and almost completely white hindwing.

Description ( Figs. 19, 20 View FIGURES 17–24 , 80 View FIGURES 69–92 ): see Kozlov (1995).

Distribution. India (Meghalaya), Thailand.

References

Clarke, J. F. G. (1955) Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick. Vol. 1. The British Museum (Natural History), London, 332 pp.

Das, A. & Singh, N. (2022) An annotated catalogue of nonditrysian Lepidoptera of India. Zootaxa, 5154 (3), 251 - 270. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5154.3.1 [Denis, M. & Schifferm ¸ ller, I.] (1775) Ankundung eines systematischen Werkes von den Schmetterlinge der Wienergegend. Vlg. Augustin Bernardi, Wien, 323 pp., 3 pl.

Kozlov, M. V. (1995) A taxonomic revision of the askoldella species-group of the genus Nemophora Hoffmannsegg (Lepidoptera, Adelidae). Entomologica Scandinavica, 26 (4), 459 - 472. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631295 x 00116

Meyrick, E. (1907) Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. 4. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 17 (4), 976 - 994.

Meyrick, E. (1912 a) Lepidoptera Heterocera (Tineae). Fam. Adelidae. In: Wytsman, P. (Ed.) Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 133. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet Imprim., Bruxelles, pp. 1 - 12, 1 pl.

Meyrick, E. (1912 b) Adelidae, Micropterygidae, Gracilariadae [sic!]. In: Wagner, H. (Ed.), Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Pt. 6. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 1 - 68.

Figures

FIGURES 17–24. Adults of Nemophora spp. 17, N. augantha (Meyrick, 1907), male, lectotype, from Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India; 18, ditto, female, from Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, India; 19, N. chionites (Meyrick, 1907), male, from Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, India; 20, ditto, female, from Shillong, Meghalaya, India; 21, N. cassiterites (Meyrick, 1907), male, paralectotype, from Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India; 22, ditto, female, from Shillong, Meghalaya, India; 23, N. griseella (Walsingham, 1880), male, from Shillong, Meghalaya, India; 24, ditto, female, holotype of Nemotois tricrates Meyrick, 1922, from Bhimtal, Uttarakhand, India. Scale: 2 mm.

FIGURES 69–92. Forewing pattern of Nemophora spp. 69, N. sporodesma (Meyrick, 1928); 70, N. phryganeella Kozlov, sp. nov.; 71, N. seraphias (Meyrick, 1907); 72, N. engraptes (Meyrick, 1907), typical form; 73, N. ornamentella Kozlov, sp. nov.; 74, N. fluorites (Meyrick, 1907); 75, N. manipurella Kozlov, sp. nov.; 76, N. mediseorsa Sun et Li, 2023; 77, N. tenuitella Kozlov, sp. nov.; 78, N. assamensis Kozlov, 1997; 79, N. augantha (Meyrick, 1907); 80, N. chionites (Meyrick, 1907); 81, N. cassiterites (Meyrick, 1907); 82, N. griseella (Walsingham, 1880); 83, N. ischnodesma (Meyrick, 1928); 84, N. asterodoxa (Meyrick, 1928); 85, N. chalcomis (Meyrick, 1907); 86, N. phoenicites (Meyrick, 1907); 87, N. atkinsonii (Moore, 1887); 88, N. gemmella (Walsingham, 1880); 89, N. neurias (Meyrick, 1922); 90, N. chrysoprasias (Meyrick, 1907); 91, N. indica (Walker, 1863); 92, N. ceylonella Kozlov, sp. nov. Scale 2 mm.

FIGURES 25–32. Adults of Nemophora spp. 25, N. ischnodesma (Meyrick, 1928), male, from Pidaung, Myanmar; 26, ditto, female, holotype, from Guwahati,Assam, India; 27, N. asterodoxa (Meyrick, 1928), male, holotype, from Somwarpet, Karnataka, India; 28, N. chalcomis (Meyrick, 1907), male, from Yala, Sri Lanka; 29, ditto, female, from Hambantota, Sri Lanka; 30, N. phoenicites (Meyrick, 1907), male, from Pune, Maharashtra, India; 31, ditto, female, from Pune, Maharashtra, India; 32, N. atkinsonii (Moore, 1887), male, holotype, from Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. Scale: 2 mm.