Sorhagenia orocorsa Varenne & Nel, 2016

Huemer, Peter & Van Nieukerken, Erik J., 2021, Identity of some recently described Lepidoptera from France-re-assessed with DNA barcodes and morphology, Zootaxa 4941 (3), pp. 301-337 : 320

Sorhagenia orocorsa Varenne & Nel, 2016

Sorhagenia orocorsa Varenne & Nel 2016: 58 , figs. 19–20.

Examined material. Holotype Ƌ: France, Haute-Corse , Corte, Restonica, 1320 m, 2.VIII.2015, uv, Th. Varenne leg., genitalia slide TV n°5605 ( RCTV).

BOLD Specimen ID TLMF 28226; BOLD Sequence ID PALEA216-20.

BIN: BOLD:AAF4360

Identity: Sorhagenia janiszewskae Riedl, 1962 , syn. nov. ( Fig. 7 )

Remarks. Sorhagenia orocorsa was described from a male holotype and separated from S. janiszewskae Riedl, 1962 by characters of the male genitalia ( Varenne & Nel 2016). However, the DNA barcode of the holotype fully corresponds with the latter species. A careful re-examination of alleged diagnostic characters showed that they underlie considerable intraspecific variation ( Wheeler et al. 2021).

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FIGURE 7.Neighbor-joining tree of Sorhagenia janiszewskae incl. S. orocorsa and the closest European species S. lophyrella (Douglas, 1846) in BOLD.