Nemapogon peslieri Varenne & Nel, 2017

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 : 309-310

Nemapogon peslieri Varenne & Nel, 2017

Nemapogon peslieri Varenne & Nel 2017b: 107 , figs. 1, 3, 5a.

Examined material. Holotype ♀: France, Alpes-Maritimes , Sospel, 477 m, uv, 5.VI.2016, Th. Varenne leg., genitalia slide TV n°5903 ( RCTV).

BOLD Specimen ID TLMF 22973; BOLD Sequence ID LEAST375-17.

BIN: BOLD:ABW0513

Identity: Nemapogon inexpectata Varenne & Nel, 2017 , syn. nov. ( Fig. 3 )

Remarks. Nemapogon peslieri was described from a female holotype and two female paratypes and compared with N. agenjoi Petersen, 1959 . Unfortunately no DNA barcode sequence is yet available in BOLD for N. agenjoi . However, the DNA barcode of the successfully sequenced holotype of N. peslieri fully agrees to that of the holotype of N. inexpectata , and from the original figures the female genitalia of both species also largely agree. We therefore synonymize N. peslieri with N. inexpectata . The male sex of N. peslieri published by Huemer (2019) consequently depicts N. inexpectata .

Figures

FIGURE 3. Neighbor-joining tree of Nemaogon peslieri incl. N. inexpectata and the closest European species N. hungaricus Gozmány, 1960 and N. cloacella (Haworth, 1828) in BOLD.