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Trifurcula guercheae Varenne & Nel 2019

  • 1. Tiroler Landesmuseen Betriebsges. m. b. H., Sammlungs- und Forschungszentrum, Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen, Krajnc-Str. 1, A- 6060 Hall, Austria
  • 2. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box 9517, NL- 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5721 - 1840 Corresponding author. p. huemer @ tiroler-landesmuseen. at; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0630 - 545 X

Description

Trifurcula guercheae Varenne & Nel, 2019

Trifurcula guercheae Varenne & Nel, 2019: 88, figs. 11–16.

Examined material. Holotype Ƌ: France, Alpes-Maritimes, Isola-sur-Tinée, 1670 m, uv, 11.VII.2018, Th. Varenne leg., genitalia slide TV n°6770 (RCTV).

BOLD Specimen ID TLMF 27069; BOLD Sequence ID LEASV317-19.

BIN: none

Identity: Trifurcula guercheae Varenne & Nel, 2019, identity uncertain.

Remarks. Trifurcula guercheae was described from a male holotype and briefly compared with Trifurcula immundella (Zeller, 1839) and T. beirnei Puplesis, 1984 (Varenne & Nel 2019). Both are indeed rather different species, but the genitalia of T. guercheae are almost completely identical to T. pallidella (Duponchel, 1843) (van Nieukerken & Johansson 1986; van Nieukerken et al. 2004b), a species currently unknown from France, although it is found in the Ligurian Alps not far from the French border (van Nieukerken et al. 2004b).

A short DNA barcode sequence of 406bp of the specimen is about 3% divergent from T. pallidella (Duponchel, 1843), the nearest known neighbour in BOLD. For the time being we refrain from synonymising T. guercheae, as further material is needed to assess the barcode variation in T. pallidella.

Notes

Published as part of Huemer, Peter & Van Nieukerken, Erik J., 2021, Identity of some recently described Lepidoptera from France-re-assessed with DNA barcodes and morphology, pp. 301-337 in Zootaxa 4941 (3) on page 305, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4595123

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
RCTV
Event date
2018-07-11
Verbatim event date
2018-07-11
Scientific name authorship
Varenne & Nel
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nepticulidae
Genus
Trifurcula
Species
guercheae
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Trifurcula guercheae Varenne, 2019 sec. Huemer & Nieukerken, 2021

References

  • Nieukerken, E. J. van & Johansson, R. (1986) Trifurcula pallidella (Duponchel) and T. beirnei Puplesis (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae): nomenclature, taxonomy and distribution. Entomologica Scandinavica, 17 (3), 271 - 278. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631286 X 00198.
  • Nieukerken, E. J. van, Mazurkiewicz, A. & Palka, K. (2004 b) Trifurcula pallidella (Duponchel, 1843) (Nepticulidae): distribution, biology and immature stages, particularly in Poland. Nota Lepidopterologica, 27 (2 / 3), 159 - 178.