''Epichoristodes apilectica'' is a species of

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

of the family

Tortricidae The Tortricidae are a family of moths, commonly known as tortrix moths or leafroller moths, in the order Lepidoptera. This large family has over 11,000 species described, and is the sole member of the superfamily Tortricoidea, although the gen ...

. It was first described by

Alexey Diakonoff Alexey Nikolaievich Diakonoff (1 March 1907 – 20 September 1989), also transliterated as Alexej Nikolajewitsch Diakonoff, was a Russian–Dutch entomologist who specialised in Microlepidoptera. His parents immigrated to the Netherlands East I ...

in 1960 and is found on

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

. Afromoths uses the name ''Epichoristodes apiletica'' on its website. That website references Diakonoff's 1960 article "Tortricidae from Madagascar. Part I. Tortricinae and Chlidanotinae" published in ''Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen'' (2) 53(2) pages 1–109. However Tortricid.net and the

Global Lepidoptera Names Index The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex) is a searchable database maintained by the Department of Entomology at the Natural History Museum, London. It is based on card indices and scanned journals, nomenclatural catalogues and the '' Zoolo ...

use the spelling ''apilectica'' and reference the same journal and volume, but page 170.

References

Archipini Endemic fauna of Madagascar Moths described in 1960 Moths of Madagascar Taxa named by Alexey Diakonoff {{Archipini-stub