Coleophora hadrocerella Toll, 1952

Barcode Index Number: BOLD:AAS0357

Material studied. 3 ♂ (DNA sample 24939 Lepid Phyl; DNA sample 24940 Lepid Phyl), 5 ♀ Tiznit Prov., Mirleft 3.2 km SSW, 10 m, 12.IV.2015, J. Tabell leg.; 1 ♀ (GP 5451 J. Tabell, DNA sample 24938 Lepid Phyl) Anti-Atlas, Tiznit Prov., Tafraout 24 km SW, 1125 m, 13.IV.2015, J. Tabell leg.; 1 ♂ Souss-Massa-Drâa, Legzira 9 km N, Sidi Ifni, 5. –7.III.2017, C. Hviid, O. Karsholt, K. Larsen & D. Nilsson leg. (all coll. TAB) .

Molecular data. The nearest neighbour is the Nearctic C. simulans McDunnough, 1961, with a 7.97 % divergence. The barcodes of C. hadrocerella exhibit 0.33 % maximum intraspecific variation (n=4).

Distribution. North Africa. Reported for the first time from Morocco by Baldizzone (1997).