Gibberifera hepaticana Kawabe & Nasu, 1994

Gibberifera simplana: Kawabe, 1982, in: Inoue et al. (eds.), 1: 122, 2: 174. [Misidentification]

Gibberifera hepaticana Kawabe & Nasu, 1994: 89; Razowski, 1999: 448; Kuznetzov, 2001, in: Ler (ed.): 347; Liu & Li, 2002: 321. TL: Japan, Honshu, Iwate Prefecture, Kuzakai; TD: OPU.

Specimens examined. 2♂, 2♀, Mt. Fanjing, Guizhou Province, alt. 2100 m, 30–31 July 2001, leg. Li H.H. & Wang X.P. ; 5♂, 1♀, Jiangkou County, Guizhou Province, alt. 1700 m, 29 August 2001, leg. Li H.H. & Wang X.P.; 1♂, 1♀, Dahe forestry station, Shanxi Province, alt. 1340 m, 13 July 2012, leg. Gao Q. & Chen N.

Distribution. China (Shanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou), Japan.

Remarks. This species is externally similar to G. simplana (Fischer von Röslerstamm), but uncus shallowly bifurcated, vesica with two or three non-deciduous cornuti and the sterigma has acute latero-caudal angles.