Gibberifera hepaticana Kawabe & Nasu, 1994

Zhang, Aihuan, 2021, Review of Gibberifera Obraztsov (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from China, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 5039 (3), pp. 409-416 : 413

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5039.3.5
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A3F75F9C-0E13-409B-B9C5-C4307193242B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5511509
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scientific name	Gibberifera hepaticana Kawabe & Nasu, 1994
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Gibberifera hepaticana Kawabe & Nasu, 1994 View in CoL

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

Gibberifera hepaticana Kawabe & Nasu, 1994: 89 View in CoL ; 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.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Tortricidae
Genus	Gibberifera