Coleophora semicinerea Staudinger, 1859

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 : 165

Coleophora semicinerea Staudinger, 1859

Barcode Index Number: BOLD:AAZ9514

Material studied. 1 ♂ Mirleft 5 km SSW, 20 m, 28.IV.2013, J. Tabell leg. ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ High Atlas , Taroudant 27 km NW, 670 m, 29.IV.2013, J. Tabell leg. ; 1 ♂ ( GP 5066 J. Tabell) High Atlas , Argana 10 km S, 1420 m, 30.IV.2013, J. Tabell leg. ; 2 ♀ Tiznit Prov. , Mirleft 3.2 km SSW, 10 m, 12.IV.2015, J. Tabell leg. ; 2 ♀ High Atlas , Al Haouz Prov., Ourika 3 km SE, 960 m, 16.IV.2015, J. Tabell leg. ; 1 ♀ Middle Atlas, El Hajeb Prov., El Hajeb 2.5 km W, 820 m, 18.IV.2015, J. Tabell leg. (all coll. TAB) ; 2 ♂ ( GP 11982 , 11993 ZT ) Guelmim 10 km NE, 500 m, 10.–11.IV.2013, Z. Tokár leg. & det. (coll. TOK).

Molecular data. The nearest neighbour is C. oriolella Zeller, 1849 , with a 6.72 % divergence. The barcodes of C. semicinerea exhibit 1.4 % maximum intraspecific variation (n=4). There are no barcodes for Moroccan specimens.

Distribution: Southern Europe, Morocco, Canary Islands: Fuerteventura ( van der Wolf, 2009).