Clepsis semiana ( Chretien , 1915) Chretien, 1915

Zlatkov, Boyan & Huemer, Peter, 2019, Remarkable confusion in some Western Palearctic Clepsis leads to a revised taxonomic concept (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae), ZooKeys 885, pp. 51-87 : 51

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BA152050-AF73-44CA-8CED-6D30F963CBC9

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Clepsis semiana ( Chretien , 1915)
status

stat. nov.

Clepsis semiana ( Chretien, 1915) stat. nov.

Cacoecia unifasciana var. semiana Chrétien, 1915: 296 (Tunisia)

Material examined.

Holotype ♂: pinned, with 4 labels: "Cacoecia / unifasciana / v. semiana" [handwritten] “Type” [red, printed] “8.6” [handwritten] "Holotype / Clepsis semiana / ( Chrétien, 1915) / Zlatkov & Huemer, 2019 des." [red, printed].

TUNISIA • 1 ♂; MNHN.

Remarks.

The male genitalia of C. semiana ( Fig. 10C View Figure 10 ) 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 View Figure 2 ). 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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Tortricidae

Genus

Clepsis