Fairy moths of the genus Nemophora Hoffmannsegg, 1798 (Lepidoptera: Adelidae) of India and Sri Lanka Author Kozlov, Mikhail V. text Zootaxa 2023 2023-06-07 5300 1 1 81 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5300.1.1 journal article 54308 10.11646/zootaxa.5300.1.1 b8577b95-8eb3-4882-9d37-59bda2bbe0d6 1175-5326 8012772 BE92774A-302E-4F18-ABC0-6C3AFD05802F Nemophora chionites ( Meyrick, 1907 ) ( Figs. 19, 20 , 80 ) Nemotois chionites: Meyrick 1907: 990 . 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 ; Clarke 1955: 84 . Nemophora chionites : Kozlov 1995: 471‒472 , figs. 9, 10, 13, 19, 40‒44; Das & Singh 2022: 264 . 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 ) 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 , 80 ): see Kozlov (1995) . Distribution . India ( Meghalaya ), Thailand .