Clepsis kupwari Ganai & Khan, 2018

Das, Gaurab Nandi, Singh, Navneet & Brown, John W., 2022, - Nomenclatural-notes-on-two-Indian-tortricids- (Lepidoptera: - Tortricidae, - Tortricinae, - Archipini), Zootaxa 5105 (1), pp. 148-150 : 149

Clepsis kupwari Ganai & Khan, 2018 (http://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:9C246AD1-EB27-45ED-8ED4-E63F88CE1BDC )

Clepsis kupwari Ahmad, 2015: 59 , pl. 6 [Thesis] (unavailable)

Clepsis kupwari Ganai and Khan, 2017: 680 , pl. 6 (nomen nudum)

Clepsis kupwari Ganai & Khan, 2018: 7 , figs 1f, 2f (Type locality: Kupwara, Jammu & Kashmir, India)

Clepsis kupwari Ganai & Khan, 2015 : Ganai et al., 2018: 463 (incorrect year of publication)

Clepsis kupwari Ganai & Khan, 2017 : Pathania et al., 2020: 15 (nomen nudum)

Clepsis kupwari (Ganai & Khan, 2015) : Dar et al., 2021: 839 (incorrect year of publication and misapplied parentheses)

Choristoneura pseudofumiferana is extremely similar in forewing maculation and genitalia to Choristoneura neurophaea (Meyrick, 1932) and Choristoneura griseicoma (Meyrick, 1924) , both described from Kashmir, India, and illustrated by Clarke (1958). Although it is possible that the three are conspecific, it is not the purpose of this note to resolve this potential taxonomic issue, which requires further investigation and careful examination of the types.

Three additional new species proposed in the unpublished thesis of Ahmad (2015) and listed by Ganai & Khan (2017) still await scrutiny and possible description. All were recognized as distinct and treated as nomina nuda by Pathania et al. (2020).