Remarkable confusion in some Western Palearctic Clepsis leads to a revised taxonomic concept (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae)
Author
Zlatkov, Boyan
Author
Huemer, Peter
text
ZooKeys
2019
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51
87
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.885.38655
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.885.38655
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Clepsis semiana (
Chretien
, 1915)
stat. nov.
Cacoecia unifasciana var. semiana
Chretien
, 1915: 296 (Tunisia)
Material examined.
Holotype ♂: pinned, with 4 labels: "Cacoecia / unifasciana / v. semiana" [handwritten]
"Type"
[red, printed]
"8.6"
[handwritten] "Holotype /
Clepsis semiana
/ (
Chretien
, 1915) / Zlatkov & Huemer, 2019 des." [red, printed].
TUNISIA • 1 ♂; MNHN.
Remarks.
The male genitalia of
C. semiana
(
Fig. 10C
) are very similar to those of
C. striolana
. However, there is a clear difference in the wing pattern. Though the lectotype of
C. unifasciana var. semiana
is poorly preserved, some poorly defined markings can be detected (
Fig. 2O
). The physical distance between the populations of this taxon and
C. striolana
is considerable and it is very unlikely that
var. semiana
is conspecific. The synonymy between
C. semiana
and
C. consimilana
proposed by
Obraztsov (1955)
is not justified. Apparently, it is rooted in the initial incorrect assignment of
var. striolana
to
Cacoecia unifasciana
, but the latter turned out to be a junior synonym of
Clepsis consimilana (see below). The taxon var. semiana
was mechanically moved to the synonymic list of
C. consimilana
without studying the genitalia of the type specimen.