Coleophora cyrniella Rebel, 1926

Barcode Index Number: BOLD:AAV9378

Material studied. 1 ♂ (DNA sample 21992 Lepid Phyl) High Atlas, Ouled Berhil 19 km NNE, 1000 m, 2.V.2013, J. Tabell leg.; 1 ♂ High Atlas, Ljoukak 23 km SW, 1600 m, 2.VI.2015, C. Hviid, O. Karsholt & K. Larsen leg; 1 ♂ High Atlas, Ouirgane 11 km S, 1200 m, 4.VI.2015, C. Hviid, O. Karsholt & K. Larsen leg. (all coll. TAB) .

Molecular data. The nearest neighbour is C. bilineella Herrich-Schäffer, 1854, with a 6.25 % divergence. The barcodes of C. cyrniella exhibit 1.12 % maximum intraspecific variation (n=3). So far Moroccan specimens have not been sequenced.

Distribution. France, Spain, Corsica, Sardinia, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Greece, Morocco, Libya, Palestine, Saudi Arabia (Baldizzone, 2019).