Coleophora eupreta Walsingham, 1907

Barcode Index Number: BOLD:AAV7988

Material studied. 1 ♂ High Atlas, Ouled Berhil 19 km NNE, 1000 m, 2.V.2013, J. Tabell leg.; 1 ♂ High Atlas, Ouled Berhil 22 km NNE, 1340 m, 1.V.2013, J. Tabell leg. (coll. TAB); 2 ♂ (GP 21860 IgR) Tifnit 2 km S, 50 m, 9.IV.2013; 1 ♀ (GP 21862 IgR) Anti Atlas Mts., Adar vill. 4 km NE, 1800 m, 13.-14.IV.2013, Ľ. Srnka leg., I. Richter det.; 1♀ (GP 14031 ZT, DNA sample 27437 Lepid Phyl [barcoding failed]) High Atlas Mts., Taliouine 8 km NW, 1100 m, 12.IV.2013, Ľ. Srnka leg., Z. Tokár & G. Baldizzone det. (all coll. SRN) .

Molecular data. The nearest neighbour is the morphologically distinct Nearctic C. simulans McDunnough, 1961, with a 7.16 % divergence. The barcodes of C. eupreta exhibit 2.03 % maximum intraspecific variation (n=8). So far Moroccan specimens have not been sequenced.

Distribution. Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Bosnia, Macedonia, North Africa, Turkey, Iran (Baldizzone, 2019). Reported for the first time from Morocco by Baldizzone (1997).