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Insecta: Lepidoptera
Nolidae, Chloephorinae
Narangodes sp. near confluens

Tai Yeung Che, Lam Tsuen Valley, Tai Po, Hong Kong

from the forthcoming Illustrated Guide to the Moths of Hong Kong:
Distribution: (of confluens) China (TW, GD) (Sugi, 1990; Jia & Yu, 2018); widespread in Hong Kong.
Status & ecology: frequent; recorded up to 690m elevation in secondary forest, plantations, tall shrubland, mangrove and village fringes, from March to November.
Taxonomy: listed as Narangodes haemorranta in Kendrick (2002). The HK taxon differs in wing pattern elements, particularly the subterminal and medial zones’ silver scaling, from that of true confluens as illustrated in Sugi (1990) (opens as a pdf) and Jia & Yu (2018). Sugi (1990) noted there are undescribed Narangodes species from the confluens group in mainland China, one of which extends to Thailand (contrary to the note by Kononenko & Pinratana 2013: 219 that states a paratype from Thailand was included in Sugi’s (1990) confluens type series, which isn’t the case - the type series included material only from Taiwan).