Nemophora aritai Kozlov & Hirowatari, 1997

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 : 24

(17) Nemophora aritai Kozlov & Hirowatari, 1997

Nemophora aritai Kozlov & Hirowatari, 1997: 90 , figs. 1, 10, 13–17 (TL: China, Taiwan, Nantou; OPU); Wang et al. 2000: 26; Shao et al. 2008: 550 (Checklist of Taiwan).

Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished by the following combined characters: the gray background color of the basal half of the forewing is densely suffused with brown scales; the presence of gray bands bordering the yellow central fascia of the forewing; the very narrow medial lobe of the valva; and the presence of a pair of strongly articulated carinae in the anellus at the base of juxta.

Specimen examined. Holotype ♁ in OPU.

Distribution. China (Taiwan).

Remarks. The type specimen was collected at about 1,800 m on the southern slope of Cuifeng, Taiwan, and several adults were observed swarming above the flowers of possibly Quercus glauca (Fagaceae) ( Kozlov & Hirowatari 1997).