Ancylis paraobtusana Varenne, Nel & Peslier, 2020

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 : 314

Ancylis paraobtusana Varenne, Nel & Peslier, 2020

Ancylis paraobtusana Nel, Varenne & Peslier 2020: 69 , figs. 13–18.

Examined material. Holotype Ƌ: France, Alpes-Maritimes , Le Broc, 600 m, uv, 23.V.2019, Th. Varenne leg., genitalia slide TV n°6928 ( RCTV) . Paratype ♀: France, Alpes-Maritimes , Lucéram, 700 m, e.l./ Rosa sp., 15.IV.2018, Th. Varenne leg., genitalia slide TV n°6670 ( RCTV) .

Holotype: BOLD Specimen ID TLMF 28243 ; BOLD Sequence ID PALEA233-20 . Paratype: BOLD Specimen ID TLMF 28244 ; BOLD Sequence ID PALEA234-20 .

BIN: none [not yet available in BOLD]

Identity: Ancylis comptana (Frölich, 1828) , syn. nov. ( Fig. 4 )

Remarks. Ancylis paraobtusana was described from a male holotype and a female paratype and compared with several congeneric species, particularly with its alleged closest taxon A. obtusana (Haworth, 1811) ( Nel et al. 2020) . However, DNA barcodes of the successfully sequenced holotype and paratype cluster together with a specimen of A. comptana (Frölich, 1828) from Lower Austria with only 0.4% divergence; these are in turn nested among three clusters of European samples without geographic structure. On the basis of uniform morphology, these clusters are considered to belong to a single, genetically variable species. Another strongly divergent cluster from North America with ca. 2.7% divergence to the nearest neighbour in Europe remains unrevised and possibly represents a different species. We consider the described phenotypical and genital differences in the original description as individual variation and therefore synonymize A. paraobtusana with A. comptana .

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FIGURE 4. Neighbor-joining tree of Ancylis comptana incl. A. paraobtusana and the closest European species A. obtusana (Haworth, 1811) in BOLD.