Coleophora texanella Chambers, 1878

Barcode Index Number: BOLD:AAB7072

Material studied. 1 ♂ Souss-Massa-Drâa, Legzira 9 km N, Sidi Ifni, 5.–7.III.2017, C. Hviid, O. Karsholt, K. Larsen & D. Nilsson leg. (coll. TAB) .

Molecular data. The nearest neighbour is a Nearctic so far unnamed Coleophora species, with a 3.21 % divergence The barcodes of C. texanella exhibit 1.83 % maximum intraspecific variation (n=194). There are no barcodes for Moroccan specimens.

Distribution. Species introduced from North America, known from Southern France, Spain (Mallorca), Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece (Zakynthos, Peloponnese, Rhodes, Crete) (Baldizzone, 2019). New to Morocco and Africa.