Coleophora eupreta Walsingham, 1907

Tabell, Jukka, Kullberg, Jaakko, Mutanen, Marko, Tokár, Zdenko & Sihvonen, Pasi, 2023, New and little known Coleophora Hübner, 1822 species from Morocco. Part I (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae), Zootaxa 5374 (2), pp. 151-195 : 163-164

Coleophora eupreta Walsingham, 1907

Barcode Index Number: BOLD:AAV7988

Material studied. 1 ♂ High Atlas, Ouled Berhil 19 km NNE, 1000 m, 2.V.2013, J. Tabell leg.; 1 ♂ High Atlas, Ouled Berhil 22 km NNE, 1340 m, 1.V.2013, J. Tabell leg. (coll. TAB); 2 ♂ (GP 21860 IgR) Tifnit 2 km S, 50 m, 9.IV.2013; 1 ♀ (GP 21862 IgR) Anti Atlas Mts., Adar vill. 4 km NE, 1800 m, 13.-14.IV.2013, Ľ. Srnka leg., I. Richter det.; 1♀ (GP 14031 ZT, DNA sample 27437 Lepid Phyl [barcoding failed]) High Atlas Mts., Taliouine 8 km NW, 1100 m, 12.IV.2013, Ľ. Srnka leg., Z. Tokár & G. Baldizzone det. (all coll. SRN) .

Molecular data. The nearest neighbour is the morphologically distinct Nearctic C. simulans McDunnough, 1961 , with a 7.16 % divergence. The barcodes of C. eupreta exhibit 2.03 % maximum intraspecific variation (n=8). So far Moroccan specimens have not been sequenced.

Distribution. Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Bosnia, Macedonia, North Africa, Turkey, Iran ( Baldizzone, 2019). Reported for the first time from Morocco by Baldizzone (1997).