Nemophora longipeniculella Kozlov 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Kozlov, Mikhail V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Adelidae
Nemophora
Nemophora longipeniculella

description: Nemophora longipeniculella Kozlov, sp. nov.
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(Figs. 7, 13)
Holotype ♀: Indonesia, Bali Island (approx. 8º 20’ S, 115º E); labelled: 8 mm circle with red border, print ‘Holo- │ type’; 7 × 15 mm, print ‘BALI │ Doherty. 1896’; 8 × 10 mm, print ‘Walsingham │ Collection │ 1910‒427’; 6 × 18 mm, print ‘HOLOTYPE ♀ │ Nemophora longi- │ peniculella Kozlov’ (NHM) [examined]. Paratype. 1 ♀, labelled: 8 mm circle with yellow border, print ‘Para- │ type’; 7 × 15 mm, print ‘ BALI │ Doherty. 1896’; 8 × 10 mm, print ‘Walsingham │ Collection │ 1910‒427.’; 6 × 18 mm, print ‘PARATYPE ♀ │ Nemophora longi- │ peniculella Kozlov’ (NHM) [examined].
Diagnosis. Nemophora longipeniculella is most similar to N. brevipeniculella (Fig. 8), from which it differs by the longer (almost equal to the forewing length) part of the female antenna thickened with dark brown scales, the ochreous yellow scales suffusing the bronze band adjacent to the forewing base, the ochreous scales at the forewing apex, and the unusually long epiphysis articulated at 0.25 of the total length of tibia and reaching its apex. It differs from females of N. umbronitidella (Fig. 4) by the yellow forewing base (females of N. timorella are unknown).
Description. Male unknown.
Female (Fig. 7). FWL 4.9‒5.1 mm, WLR 0.35. Vertex and frons brown. PLB 1.0‒1.1 × vertical eye diameter (1.0‒1.1 × length of scape), brown. Proboscis brown, base covered with dark coppery brown semi-erect elongated scales forming small tuft.Antenna>1.3 × FWL. Scape and basal part of flagellum dark coppery brown, dorsolaterally thickened by semi-erect dark brown scales; brush formed by these scales reaches 0.95 × FWL; flagellum grey beyond this brush. Tegulae and thorax ochreous yellow to yellow. Forewing (Fig. 13) ochreous brown, with pale yellow basal field expanding to 0.4 × FWL at both costa and dorsum, pale yellow medial band, and oblique yellow band linking costa with outer wing margin. Basal spot reduced to dark line along costa; forewing base separated from bronze background by interrupted line of coppery brown scales. Pale yellow medial band with straight internal margin and sinuate external margin, on both sides bordered by interrupted lines of coppery brown scales. Oblique yellow band linking costa with outer wing margin bordered by sparse coppery brown scales; this band expands into wide spot along outer margin. Costal part of forewing bronze near apex. Fringe brown. Hindwing dark brown with coppery iridescence; costal area yellowish grey; fringe brown to light brown. Legs coppery brown to bronze; bases of all tarsomeres light yellow. Epiphysis at 0.25, unusually long, reaching apex of tibia. Abdomen dorsally ochreous brown, ventrally bronze at base to coppery brown at apex.
Distribution. Indonesia, Bali Island.
Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from longus (Latin: long) and peniculus (Latin: brush) and refers to the diagnostic trait of this species.
description: Published as part of Kozlov, Mikhail V., 2024, Description of six new species forming the sumbana species group of the genus Nemophora Hoffmannsegg (Lepidoptera, Adelidae) from the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia, pp. 111-122 in Zootaxa 5543 (1) on pages 119-120, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5543.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/14385298