Taxonomic study of the genus Nemapogon Schrank from China (Lepidoptera: Tineidae)
Author
Xiao, Yunli
Author
Li, Houhun
text
Zootaxa
2010
2401
41
51
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.275897
0c228978-8a5a-4d08-abda-d8ae99b64fde
1175-5326
275897
Nemapogon inconditella
(
Lucas, 1956
)
(
Figs. 4
,
12
)
Aristotelia inconditella
Lucas, 1956
: 255
.
Tinea buckwelli
Lucas, 1956
: 258
.
Nemapogon heydeni
Petersen, 1957
: 73
.
Nemapogon thomasi
Cǎpuse, 1975
: 66
Adult (
Fig. 4
). Wing expanse 11.5–14.0 mm.
Material examined.
CHINA
:
1 3, Altay (47°50΄N, 88°12΄E), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,
900 m
,
23 July 1994
, leg. Houhun Li and Hongyan Qin.
Distribution:
China
(Xinjiang);
Russia
, Sardinien, Mediterranean, central and southern Europe.
Diagnosis:
This species is characterized by the white forewing having five dark brown spots at base, 1/4, 1/2, subapex of costal margin and at 3/4 of anal fold; the juxta M-shaped ventrally and somewhat inverted heart-shaped dorsally, the phallus more than twice the length of valvae and with a process at distal 1/3 (
Fig. 12
).
Petersen (1957,
Fig. 8
, under the name
N. heydeni
)
described the female and illustrated its genital structures.
Remarks:
The species is newly recorded from
China
.