Remarkable confusion in some Western Palearctic Clepsis leads to a revised taxonomic concept (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae)

By

Zlatkov, Boyan, 1982-
Huemer, Peter

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

885

Pages

51--87

Subjects

C. neglectana , Clepsis consimilana , DNA barcoding , genitalia , vesica

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.885.38655

 

Abstract

The taxonomy of some Palearctic species of the genusClepsisGuenée, 1845 (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae), in particularC. neglectanasensu auctt. andC. consimilanasensu auctt., is revised based on combined characters of external and internal adult morphology, including everted vesicae in male genitalia, and DNA barcodes.Clepsis striolana(Ragonot, 1879),stat. rev.,C. acclivana(Zerny, 1933),C. trivia(Meyrick, 1913),stat rev., andC. xylotoma(Meyrick, 1891),stat. rev.are resurrected from synonymy withC. neglectana(Herrich-Schäffer, 1851),C. semiana(Chrétien, 1915),stat. nov.is considered as a valid species;C. eatoniana(Ragonot, 1881),stat. rev., is resurrected from synonymy withC. consimilana(Hübner, 1817), andC. razowskiiGastón, Vives & Revilla, 2017,syn. nov.is synonymised withC. eatoniana.