Nemophora zheduoshana Liao, Hirowatari & Huang, 2021

Liao, Cheng-Qing, Hirowatari, Toshiya, Yagi, Sadahisa, Wang, Min, Wang, Xing & Huang, Guo-Hua, 2023, The fauna of the family Adelidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Adeloidea) from China, Zootaxa 5348 (1), pp. 1-152 : 21

(14) Nemophora zheduoshana Liao, Hirowatari & Huang, 2021

(Plates II-2, XIII-1)

Nemophora zheduoshana Liao et al., 2021: 18 , figs. 1A, C, E, 2A, 3 (TL: China, Sichuan, Kangding, Zheduoshan ; HUNAU).

Diagnosis. This species is very similar to N. sichuana in the forewing pattern, but can differs from the latter by the following characters: the central fascia is slightly interrupted in the middle; the subapical spot is stilliform; the abdomen is dark brown to black uniformly; the eyes are relatively larger with ca. 0.78 of eye size index; the valva is widely separated in ventral view; and the sacculus is only slightly swollen in the basal part.

Specimen examined. [ S ichuan ] 1♂ (holotype), Zheduoshan (4,200 m), Kangding City, 2004.VIII.4, M. Wang & L.S. Chen leg. ( HUNAU) .

Distribution. China (Sichuan).

Remarks. Compared with other members of the sichuana species group, this species occurs in a mountainous locality with an elevation of approximately 4,200 m ( Liao et al. 2021).