Department of Biology; University of Turku.
Zootaxa. 2023 Jun 8;5301(1):94-104. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5301.1.4.
This study corrects misidentifications found in a recently published paper by Sun, Wang & Li (2022; Zootaxa 5219, 301-338). These authors used the name ‛Nemophora amatella (Staudinger, 1892)' for N. augites (Meyrick, 1938) and the name ‛N. augites (Caradja et Meyrick, 1938)' for an undescribed species. To resolve these problems, I set aside the earlier (erroneous) lectotype fixation of N. augites (Meyrick, 1938) and replace it with a new lectotype, designate a lectotype of N. amatella (Staudinger, 1892), provide differential diagnoses and morphological descriptions of these species, and describe N. yunnanica Kozlov, sp. nov. from Lijiang (Yunnan, China). The reported misidentifications show that any revision of a taxonomically challenging group like the fairy moth genus Nemophora Hoffmannsegg, 1798 should always be based on the examination of all survived primary types of previously described species.
本研究纠正了 Sun、Wang 和 Li（2022；Zootaxa 5219, 301-338）最近发表的一篇论文中的错误鉴定。这些作者将 N. augites (Meyrick, 1938) 命名为‛Nemophora amatella (Staudinger, 1892)'，并将一个未描述的物种命名为‛N. augites (Caradja et Meyrick, 1938)'。为了解决这些问题，我搁置了 N. augites (Meyrick, 1938) 的早期（错误）模式标本固定，并以一个新的模式标本代替，指定了 N. amatella (Staudinger, 1892) 的模式标本，对这些物种进行了鉴别和形态描述，并描述了来自中国云南丽江的 N. yunnanica Kozlov, sp. nov.。所报道的错误鉴定表明，对像神仙蛾属 Nemophora Hoffmannsegg, 1798 这样具有分类挑战性的类群进行任何修订，都应该始终基于对以前描述的所有存活原始模式标本的检查。
