Aristotelia billii Varenne & Nel, 2013

Huemer, Peter & Van Nieukerken, Erik J., 2021, Identity of some recently described Lepidoptera from France-re-assessed with DNA barcodes and morphology, Zootaxa 4941 (3), pp. 301-337 : 321

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EAFCA1C4-7C08-487F-BA6E-DD74D0A33E19
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4595231
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scientific name	Aristotelia billii Varenne & Nel, 2013
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Aristotelia billii Varenne & Nel, 2013 View in CoL

Aristotelia billii Varenne & Nel 2013a: 17 View in CoL , figs. 1–2, 4.

Examined material. Holotype Ƌ: France, Alpes-Maritimes , Chabanes, Toudon, 1070 m, u.v., 10.VIII.2012, Th. Varenne leg., genitalia slide JN n°26073 ( RCTV).

BOLD Specimen ID TLMF 22304; BOLD Sequence ID LEASS656-17.

BIN: BOLD:AAW5816

Identity: Aristotelia billii Varenne & Nel, 2013 , identity uncertain.

Remarks. Aristotelia billii was described from a male holotype and from two male and five female paratypes ( Nel & Varenne 2013a) and separated from the similar A. subericinella Duponchel, 1843 by characters of the male genitalia. The DNA barcode sequence of the holotype was already published by Huemer et al. (2020) and clearly differs from topotypical A. subericinella collected in eastern Austria. Moreover, it differs externally from A. leonhardi Krone, 1907 , the only European species of the A. subericinella species-group without barcode (Huemer et al. 2020). However, the genus Aristotelia , and particularly the A. subericinella species group including A. billii , are in need of a taxonomic revision.