| Nemophora selasphora | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Adelidae |
| Genus: | Nemophora |
| Species: | N. selasphora |
| Binomial name | |
| Nemophora selasphora (Turner, 1913) | |
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Nemophora selasphora is a moth of the Adelidae family. It is found in Queensland.
Original description
Male 12-13 mm. Head fuscous; frons brilliant bluish-metallic. Palpi moderately long; fuscous. Antennae fuscous; basal joint iridescent. Thorax bronzy-metallic. Abdomen dark fuscous. Legs fuscous, with metallic reflections; tarsi with whitish annulations. Forewings brilliant purple or golden according to incidence of light; a blackish subcostal streak from base to 1/4; a pear-shaped transverse yellowish fascia with longitudinal striations, from costa beyond middle, broadening in costal portion of disc, then tapering to a point on dorsum before tornus; cilia gleaming with purple and gold. Hindwings thinly scaled; fuscous, with purple iridescence; cilia fuscous. Type in Coll. Turner. Q. : Mount Tambourine, in November; five specimens.
— Original description by Turner
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| Nemophora selasphora | |
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