Coleophora amethystinella Ragonot, 1886

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 : 157

Coleophora amethystinella Ragonot, 1886

Barcode Index Number: BOLD:ADD1883

Material studied. 1 ♂ (DNA sample 25378 Lepid Phyl) Middle Atlas, El Hajeb Prov. , El Hajeb 3 km S, 1125 m, 18.IV. 2015, J. Tabell leg.; 1 ♂ Ifrane Prov., Azrou 3 km NNW, 1210 m, 16.V. 2016, J. Tabell leg.; 1 ♂ (GP 6153 J. Tabell) High Atlas, 6 km NW Ouirgane, road to Amizmiz , 1050 m, 1.–2.V.2016, C. Hviid, K. Larsen & D. Nilsson leg. (all coll. TAB) .

Molecular data. The nearest neighbour is the morphologically distinct C. canariipennella Toll, 1959 , with a 5.72 % divergence. The barcodes of C. amethystinella exhibit 0.64 % maximum intraspecific variation (n=2).

Distribution. Portugal, Spain, France, Great Britain, Greece, Macedonia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Morocco ( Stübner 2007; Richter & Pastorális 2015), Italy ( Baldizzone 2019)