Nemophora chrysoprasias ( 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 : 39

Nemophora chrysoprasias ( Meyrick, 1907)

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Nemotois chrysoprasias : Meyrick 1907: 992.

Nemophora chrysoprasias , type materials and revision: Kozlov 2023: 30–31, 62 figs. 37, 38 (colour photographs of moths), 67 fig. 90 (drawing of forewing pattern), 71 fig. 122 (drawing of male genitalia), 77 fig. 153 (photograph of male genitalia). Additional information: Hirowatari et al. 2022: 393–396, 393 figs. 1–4 (colour photographs of moths), 394 fig. 2 (colour photographs of moths), 395 fig. 3 (drawing of male genitalia), 396 fig. 4 (drawing of female genitalia); Liao et al. 2023: 43, 100 pl. 5 fig. 2 (colour photographs of moths), 110 pl. 10 fig. 9 (colour photograph of lectotype).

Distribution. India ( Meyrick 1907), continental China ( Hirowatari et al. 2022), Myanmar ( Kozlov 2023).

Figures

FIGURES 41–48. Adults of Nemophora spp. 41, N. umbripennis Stringer, 1930, male, from Nose, Kinki, Honsyu, Japan; 42, ditto, female, from Chin Hills, Myanamar; 43, N. chrysoprasias (Meyrick, 1907), male, lectotype, from Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India; 44, N. aurifera (Butler, 1881), male, from Pilushen-mu, Hualien County, Taiwan; 45, ditto, male, from Sa Pa, Vietnam; 46, ditto, male, holotype of Nemotois servata Meyrick in Caradja 1925, from Linping, Yunnan Province, China; 47, ditto, female, from Kozagawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Honshu, Japan; 48, N. nielseni Kozlov, sp. nov., male, paratype, from Doi Ithanon National Park, Thailand. Scale: 2 mm.