Exapate Hübner, 1825

Huemer, Peter & Mayr, Toni, 2023, A surprising new species of Exapate Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) from Armenia, Zootaxa 5296 (1), pp. 75-82 : 76-77

Genus Exapate Hübner, 1825

Exapate Hübner, 1825 . Type species: Phalaena Tinea gelatella Linnaues, 1761 [= [ Phalaena ] congelatella Clerck, 1759 ].

Scinipher Frölich, 1828 . Type species: Phalaena congelatella Clerck, 1759 .

Cheimatophila Stephens, 1829 . Preoccupied.

Cheimaphasia Curtis, 1833 . Type species: Phalaena Tinea gelatella Linnaues, 1761 [= [ Phalaena ] congelatella Clerck, 1759 ].

Cheimonophila Duponchel, 1838 . Type species: Phalaena Tinea gelatella Linnaeus, 1761 [= [ Phalaena ] congelatella Clerck, 1759 ].

Enyphantes Hübner, 1806 . Rejected.

Exapate congelatella (Clerck, 1759)

Phalaena congelatella Clerck, 1759

Phalaena paradoxa Sulzer, 1776

Lithosia gelata Fabricius, 1798

Tortrix gelatana Hübner, [1819]

? Exapate ignotella de Rougemont, 1906

Exapate congelatella ab. kenneli Schille, 1924

Exapate bicuspidella Bruun & Krogerus, 1996

Exapate duratella Heyden, 1864

Exapate aidasi sp. nov.

Key to species

Based on males

1 Small species (wingspan c. 17–19 mm), hindwings dark greyish; phallus with medial thorn............. E. aidaisi sp. nov.

- Larger species (wingspan c. 21–24 mm), hindwings pale grey; phallus with subapical thorn.......................... 2

2 Forewing with brownish-grey ground colour, veins weakly suffused with brown; uncus moderately slender, with small lateral shoulders.......................................................................... E. congelatella (Clerck)

- Forewing with greyish ground colour, veins distinctly suffused with grey-brown; uncus broad, with larger lateral shoulders...................................................................................... E. duratella Heyden