Fairy moths of the genus Nemophora Hoffmannsegg, 1798 (Lepidoptera: Adelidae) from Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam
Author
Kozlov, Mikhail V.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5423.1.1
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10.11646/zootaxa.5423.1.1
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Nemophora paradisea
(
Butler, 1881
)
(
Figs. 32
,
33
)
Nemotois paradisea
:
Butler 1881: 592
.
Holotype
♂
:
Japan
,
Honshu
,
Tokyo
(approx.
35° 40’ N
,
139° 46’ E
); labelled:
8 mm
circle with red border, print ‘
Type’
; 5.5 ×
10 mm
, black ink ‘
Tokei
[18]80–97 [Fenton]’, reverse side ‘
Nemotois
paradiseus │
Butler. Type’
; 14 ×
24 mm
, wide black border, black ink + print ‘
Nemotois │ paradisea
│
Btlr.
│
Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond.
592 (1881) │ TYPE
♂
descr.’ (
NHM
) [examined].
Other material
(in addition to specimens reported by
Kozlov & Robinson 1996a
).
China
.
1 ♀
,
Zhoushan Island
,
ix.1892
(
Walker
) (
NHM
)
.
Taiwan
.
1 ♂
,
Hualien County
,
Pilushenmu
,
2150 m
,
27.vi.1996
(
Yen
) (
NMNST
)
;
2 ♀
,
Kaoshiung County
,
Tengir Forest Research Station
(
23
o
07' N
,
120
o
47' E
),
1600 m
,
6.–10.vii.2000
(
Schacht
) (
ZSM
)
.
Thailand
.
1 ♂
,
Nakhon Nayok Province
,
Khao Yai National Park
,
700 m
,
29.ix.–6.x.1984
(
Karsholt
et al
.) (
ZMUC
)
;
1 ♂
, ibid.,
18.viii.1987
(
Allen
)
;
1 ♂
, ibid.,
31.viii.–6.ix.1986
(
Robinson
)
;
1 ♂
,
Chiang Mai
,
Doi Suthep-Pui National Park
,
1460 m
,
26.iv.–10.v.1989
(
Cotton
)
;
1 ♂
,
Uthai Thani District
,
Khao Nang Rum
,
400 m
,
6.–8.vi.1986
(
Allen
) (all in
NHM
)
.
Laos
.
1 ♀
,
Vientiane Province
,
Nam-Lik Eco-Village
,
19.v.2016
(
Omelko
) (
MZH
)
.
Vietnam
.
1 ♂
1 ♀
,
Ninh Bình Province
,
Nho Quan District
,
Bong-Cúc Phuong Village
,
360 m
,
6.‒9.x.2006
(
Zolotukhin
) (
ZMB
)
.
Japan
.
1 ♀
,
Honshu
,
Kanzanji
,
Yogo-cho
,
Shiga Prefecture
,
28.viii.1993
(
Hirowatari
) (
UOP
)
;
1 ♂
,
Akita Prefecture
,
Mizubayashi
,
Honjo
,
Yuri-Honjo
shi,
4.viii.2010
(
Umetsu
) (
APM
)
.
Diagnosis
.
Nemophora paradisea
is so similar to
N. decisella
that it was previously considered as its junior synonym (
Kozlov & Robinson 1996a
). Although I failed to find any external character that allows to clearly discriminate between these two species, now I accept the opinion of
Hirowatari & Nagaike (1998)
and consider
N. paradisea
and
N. decisella
as different species with partly overlapping distribution ranges.
Nemophora paradisea
differs from
N. decisella
in the coppery brown (vs greyish brown) forewing colour, nearly straight (vs strongly S-shaped) apical third of carinae, nearly straight (vs strongly C-shaped) phallus and inner valvar margins steadily approaching each other (vs almost parallel to each other).
Distribution
. Continental
China
(
Caradja & Meyrick 1935
),
Taiwan
(
Issiki 1922
),
Thailand
(this study),
Laos
(this study),
Cambodia
(this study; photograph-based record: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/82119944),
Vietnam
(this study),
South Korea
(
Kozlov & Robinson 1996a
),
Russia
(
Rebel 1901
, as
Adela imperialis
),
Japan
(
Butler 1881
).
Comments
. A colour photograph of the
holotype
(erroneously referred to as a
syntype
) was published by
Liao
et al.
(2023
, pl. 10 fig. 6). For the combined description of
N. paradisea
and
N. decisella
and for geographic variation in diagnostically important traits see
Kozlov & Robinson (1996a)
. The individual descriptions of both
N. paradisea
and
N. decisella
, their extended differential diagnoses and synonymy will be provided elsewhere simultaneously with the revision of several species closely related to
N. decisella
that have been described by
Diakonoff (1951)
.