Trifurcula aureacorsa Varenne & Nel, 2016

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 : 305

Trifurcula aureacorsa Varenne & Nel, 2016

Trifurcula aureacorsa Varenne & Nel 2016: 53 , figs. 7–8, 10a, 11.

Examined material. Holotype Ƌ: France, Haute-Corse , Calacuccia, Sovenzia, 960 m, 10.VII.2013, uv, Th. Varenne leg., genitalia slide JN n°27498, ( RCTV).

Paratype (“ allotype ”) ♀: same locality, but 4.VIII.2015, genitalia slide TV5649, slide of right wing TV5692 ( RCTV) ; Paratype ♀: same locality data, ( RCTV) .

Paratype (allotype): BOLD Specimen ID TV5692; BOLD Sequence ID LEASV317-19;

Paratype: BOLD Specimen ID TLMF 28223 ; BOLD Sequence ID PALEA213-20 .

BIN: none

Identity: Trifurcula aureacorsa Varenne & Nel, 2016

Remarks. Trifurcula aureacorsa was described from a male holotype and three female paratypes and compared with Trifurcula immundella (Zeller, 1839) . The holotype was examined by EvN, but not sequenced due to lack of sufficient tissue to sample without damaging the specimen. We obtained two short sequences from female paratypes, both from a different part of the barcode, without overlap, which makes them not comparable. On the basis of the male and female genitalia, the species is considered to be the same as a taxon from Sardinia as assessed by EvN (cited by Triberti & Braggio 2011), and is assigned to BIN BOLD:ACG9232. In different neighbor-joining analyses the barcode sequences of the paratype specimens grouped with the Sardinian specimens, albeit at some distance. We consider this to be a Tyrrhenian endemic species.