Coleophora aegyptiacae 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 : 156

Coleophora aegyptiacae Walsingham, 1907

Barcode Index Number: BOLD: AAS0356

Material studied. 1 ♂ (DNA sample 21846 Lepid Phyl) High Atlas, Taroudant 27 km NW, 670 m, 29.IV.2013, J. Tabell leg.; 2 ♂ (GP 5062 J. Tabell, DNA sample 21847 Lepid Phyl) High Atlas, Ouled Berhil 19 km NNE, 1000 m, 2.V.2013, J. Tabell leg.; 1 ♂, 3 ♀ High Atlas, Taroudant Prov. , Tafingoult 5 km N, 1130 m, 15.IV.2015, J. Tabell leg.; 3 ♂ High Atlas, Ljoukak 18 km SW, 1300–1500 m, 2.VI.2015, C. Hviid, O. Karsholt & K. Larsen leg.; 1 ♂ High Atlas , Ouirgane 7 km S, 950 m, 4.VI.2015, C. Hviid, O. Karsholt & K. Larsen leg.; 1 ♂ High Atlas, 6 km NW Ouirgane , road to Amizmiz , 1050 m, 1.–2.V.2016, C. Hviid, K. Larsen & D. Nilsson leg.; 1 ♂ Settat Prov. Sidi Said Maachou 2.5 km E, 100 m, 18.V.2016, J. Tabell leg.; 9 ♂ Anti-Atlas: Souss-Massa-Drâa, Idikl 16 km E Tafraoute , 1580 m, 8.–10.III.2017, C. Hviid, O. Karsholt, K. Larsen & D. Nilsson leg. (all coll. TAB) ; 7 ♂ (GP 11949-51 , 11981 , 13034 , 13995 , 13996 ZT) + 55 exx., Guelmim 10 km NE, 500 m, 10.–11.IV.2013, Z. Tokár leg. & det. (all coll. TOK) ; 4 ♂ (GP 21871-2 IgR, GP 14224-5 ZT) + 11 exx., High Atlas Mts., Taliouine 8 km NW, 1100 m, 12.IV.2013, Ľ. Srnka leg., I. Richter det. (all coll. SRN) .

Molecular data. The nearest neighbour is C. obtectella Zeller, 1849 , with an 8.73 % divergence. The barcodes of C. aegyptiacae exhibit 0.16 % maximum intraspecific variation (n=3).

Distribution. Canary Islands, North Africa, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Iran. Reported for the first time from Morocco by Baldizzone (1995).