Nemophora chionites
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Description
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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHM
- Event date
- 1987-08-25
- Family
- Adelidae
- Genus
- Nemophora
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Species
- chionites
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1987-08-25/27
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nemophora chionites (Meyrick, 1907) sec. Kozlov, 2023
References
- Meyrick, E. (1907) Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. 4. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 17 (4), 976 - 994.
- Kozlov, M. V. (1995) A taxonomic revision of the askoldella species-group of the genus Nemophora Hoffmannsegg (Lepidoptera, Adelidae). Entomologica Scandinavica, 26 (4), 459 - 472. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631295 x 00116
- Meyrick, E. (1912 a) Lepidoptera Heterocera (Tineae). Fam. Adelidae. In: Wytsman, P. (Ed.) Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 133. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet Imprim., Bruxelles, pp. 1 - 12, 1 pl.
- Meyrick, E. (1912 b) Adelidae, Micropterygidae, Gracilariadae [sic!]. In: Wagner, H. (Ed.), Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Pt. 6. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 1 - 68.
- Clarke, J. F. G. (1955) Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick. Vol. 1. The British Museum (Natural History), London, 332 pp.
- Das, A. & Singh, N. (2022) An annotated catalogue of nonditrysian Lepidoptera of India. Zootaxa, 5154 (3), 251 - 270. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5154.3.1 [Denis, M. & Schifferm ¸ ller, I.] (1775) Ankundung eines systematischen Werkes von den Schmetterlinge der Wienergegend. Vlg. Augustin Bernardi, Wien, 323 pp., 3 pl.