New and little known Coleophora Hübner, 1822 species from Morocco. Part I (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae) Author Tabell, Jukka 0000-0002-3477-5360 Laaksotie 28, FI- 19600 Hartola, Finland. jukka.tabell@phnet.fi Author Kullberg, Jaakko 0009-0007-8558-4947 Tuulikuja 2, FI- 02100 Espoo, Finland. jaakko.kullberg@gmail.com Author Mutanen, Marko 0000-0003-4464-6308 Ecology and Genetics Research Unit, Po Box 3000, FI- 90014 University of Oulu, Finland. marko.mutanen@oulu.fi Author Tokár, Zdenko 0000-0002-2787-7190 P. J. Šafárika 11, SK- 92700 Šaľa, Slovakia. zdeno.tokar@gmail.com Author Sihvonen, Pasi 0000-0003-2237-9325 Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, P. O. Box 17, FI- 00014, Finland. pasi.sihvonen@helsinki.fi text Zootaxa 2023 2023-11-16 5374 2 151 195 https://mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5374.2.1/52284 journal article 278561 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.2.1 7429bc3f-82d3-4ad9-b570-18665af7831b 1175-5326 10148092 D73FADAD-514B-4BE8-87B9-F4E66FD21406 Coleophora aegyptiacae Walsingham, 1907 Barcode Index Number: BOLD: AAS0356 Material studied. 1 ♂ (DNA sample 21846 Lepid Phyl) High Atlas , Taroudant 27 km NW , 670 m , 29.IV.2013 , J. Tabell leg.; 2 ♂ (GP 5062 J. Tabell, DNA sample 21847 Lepid Phyl) High Atlas , Ouled Berhil 19 km NNE , 1000 m , 2.V.2013 , J. Tabell leg.; 1 ♂ , 3 ♀ High Atlas , Taroudant Prov. , Tafingoult 5 km N , 1130 m , 15.IV.2015 , J. Tabell leg.; 3 ♂ High Atlas , Ljoukak 18 km SW , 1300–1500 m , 2.VI.2015 , C. Hviid , O. Karsholt & K. Larsen leg.; 1 ♂ High Atlas , Ouirgane 7 km S , 950 m , 4.VI.2015 , C. Hviid , O. Karsholt & K. Larsen leg.; 1 ♂ High Atlas , 6 km NW Ouirgane , road to Amizmiz , 1050 m , 1.–2.V.2016 , C. Hviid , K. Larsen & D. Nilsson leg.; 1 ♂ Settat Prov . Sidi Said Maachou 2.5 km E , 100 m , 18.V.2016 , J. Tabell leg.; 9 ♂ Anti-Atlas : Souss-Massa-Drâa , Idikl 16 km E Tafraoute , 1580 m , 8.–10.III.2017 , C. Hviid , O. Karsholt , K. Larsen & D. Nilsson leg. (all coll. TAB ) ; 7 ♂ (GP 11949-51 , 11981 , 13034 , 13995 , 13996 ZT) + 55 exx., Guelmim 10 km NE , 500 m , 10.–11.IV.2013 , Z. Tokár leg. & det. (all coll. TOK ) ; 4 ♂ (GP 21871-2 IgR, GP 14224-5 ZT) + 11 exx., High Atlas Mts. , Taliouine 8 km NW , 1100 m , 12.IV.2013 , Ľ. Srnka leg., I. Richter det. (all coll. SRN ) . Molecular data. The nearest neighbour is C. obtectella Zeller, 1849 , with an 8.73 % divergence. The barcodes of C. aegyptiacae exhibit 0.16 % maximum intraspecific variation (n=3). Distribution. Canary Islands, North Africa, Palestine , Saudi Arabia , Iran . Reported for the first time from Morocco by Baldizzone (1995) .