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

Abstract

The taxonomy of some Palearctic species of the genus Clepsis Guenée, 1845 (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae), in particular C. neglectana sensu auctt. and C. consimilana sensu 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., and C. xylotoma (Meyrick, 1891), stat. rev. are resurrected from synonymy with C. 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 with C. consimilana (Hübner, 1817), and C. razowskii Gastón, Vives & Revilla, 2017, syn. nov. is synonymised with C. eatoniana.