Trifurcula angustivalva 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 : 304

Trifurcula angustivalva Varenne & Nel, 2016

Trifurcula angustivalva Varenne & Nel 2016: 51 , figs. 1–2, 4a, 5.

Examined material. Holotype Ƌ: France: Haute-Corse , Canavaggia, 260 m, 12.X.2015, uv, Th. Varenne leg., genitalia slide JN29818 ( RCTV).

Paratype ♀: same data, genitalia slide TV n°5646 ( RCTV) .

Holotype: BOLD Specimen ID JN29818; BOLD Sequence ID NEPTA1932-17.

Paratype: BOLD Specimen ID TLMF 28224 ; BOLD Sequence ID PALEA214-20 .

BIN: BOLD:AEC3873

Identity: Trifurcula angustivalva Varenne & Nel, 2016

Remarks. Trifurcula angustivalva was described from a male holotype and a female paratype and compared with several other congeneric species, particularly T. squamatella Stainton, 1849 . We have been able to obtain a short sequence of the holotype with 242 bp and a complete DNA barcode of the paratype. Both sequences fully correspond to each other with ca. 7.5% distance to the nearest neighbour in BOLD, an unnamed species of Trifurcula from Slovenia. Morphologically the species is well characterised, and belongs to the group of species around T. squamatella and T. beirnei Puplesis, 1984 , that probably all make hidden mines inside stems or galls on brooms ( Laštůvka & Laštůvka 2005).