
A Brief Introduction
As one of the only two Neomusotima species in the world, N. fuscolinealis is an unrecorded species in Taiwan and originally distributed in Janpan and Hong Kong. Wing pattern of the two species is quite similar so that male and female genitalia comparison is the most reliable method two identify them.
References
Solis MA, Yen SH, Goolsby JH. 2004. Species of Lygomusotima new genus and Neomusotima Yoshiyasu (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) from Australia and Southeastern Asia feeding on Lygodium microphyllum (Schizaeaceae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97(1):64-76.
Yoshiyasu Y. 1985. A systematic study of the Nymphulinae and the Musotiminae of Japan (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Scientific Reports of the Kyoto Prefectural
University (Agriculture) 37: 1-162.
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