Description of six new species forming the sumbana species group of the genus Nemophora Hoffmannsegg (Lepidoptera, Adelidae) from the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia

: Kozlov, Mikhail V.

Publisher: Magnolia Press

: 2024

: Zootaxa

: 5543

: 1

: 111

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: 1175-5326

: 1175-5334

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5543.1.6

: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5543.1.6

In this study six new species of the genus Nemophora Hoffmannsegg, 1798, are described from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Sumbawa, Sumba, and Timor) in Indonesia. These species (N. sumbana Kozlov, sp. nov., N. timorella Kozlov, sp. nov., N. umbronitidella Kozlov, sp. nov., N. wegneri Kozlov, sp. nov., N. longipeniculella Kozlov, sp. nov., and N. brevipeniculella Kozlov, sp. nov.) constitute a monophyletic group, characterized by a Λ-shaped yellow marking on the forewing, with the dorsal section of the distal leg of this marking extending along the outer wing margin.

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Funding was provided by the
Research Council (formerly Academy) of Finland through multiple mobility grants, the European Commission’s
(FP 6) Integrated Infrastructure Initiative programme SYNTHESYS, SYS-Resource and Biod-Iberia programs,
Finnish Cultural Foundation, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, British Council,
and the Smithsonian Institution. Open access publication of this study was supported by Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse.