Pyralis desfontainana, Fabricius, 1794

Baixeras, Joaquín & Karsholt, Ole, 2011, The Tortricidae described by J. C. Fabricius (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 3127, pp. 1-37 : 9

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6194679
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scientific name	Pyralis desfontainana
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desfontainana Fabricius, 1794

Pyralis desfontainana Fabricius, 1794: 268 .

Type locality. England (“Habitat in Anglia Mus. Dom. Francillon”).

Material examined. None.

Identity. Acleris cristana ( Denis and Schiffermüller, 1775) ( Tortricinae , Tortricini ).

Remarks. Together with P. rossiana , P. ephippana , and P. profanana (see these below), this is one of the oldest synonyms of the highly variable species A. cristana . Guenée (1845) recognized them as varieties of A. cristana , and in contemporary literature P. desfontainana is merely considered a synonym (e.g., Brown 2005).