Nephoploca

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Nephoploca
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Subfamily: Thyatirinae
Genus: Nephoploca
Yoshimoto, 1988
Species:
N. hoenei
Binomial name
Nephoploca hoenei
(Sick, 1941)
Synonyms
  • Polyploca hoeneiSick, 1941

Nephoploca hoenei is a moth in the family Drepanidae and the only species in the genus Nephoploca. It was described by Sick in 1941. [1] It is found in the Chinese provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan. [2]

References

  1. Beccaloni, George; et al., eds. (February 2005). "Scientific name search". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum, London.
  2. Jiang, Nan; Yang, Chao; Xue, Dayong; Han, Hongxiang (March 2015). "An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species" . Zootaxa. 3941 (1): 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1. PMID   25947492.