''Triodia nubifer'' is a species of

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

belonging to the family

Hepialidae The Hepialidae are a family of insects in the lepidopteran order. Moths of this family are often referred to as swift moths or ghost moths. Taxonomy and systematics The Hepialidae constitute by far the most diverse group of the infraorder Exopo ...

. It was described by Julius Lederer in 1853 and is known from

Central Russia Central Russia is, broadly, the various areas in European Russia. Historically, the area of Central Russia varied based on the purpose for which it is being used. It may, for example, refer to European Russia (except the North Caucasus and ...

and

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

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Hepialidae genera"''Triodia nubifer'' (Lederer, 1853) (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae) from the Altai Mountains - a new species for the Russian fauna"
''Amurian Zoological Journal''. 3 (4): 367-369.
"Is ''Triodia nubifer'' (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae) the only pre- or interglacial relic species of Lepidoptera in the Altai-Sayan Mountain System?"
''Euroasian Entomological Journal''. 14 (2): 134-134. Hepialidae Moths described in 1853 Moths of Asia Taxa named by Julius Lederer {{Hepialidae-stub