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 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.2.1 1175-5326 10148092 D73FADAD-514B-4BE8-87B9-F4E66FD21406 Coleophora albidorsella Toll, 1942 Barcode Index Number: BOLD:ACS9919 Material studied. 1 ♂ (DNA sample 21836 Lepid Phyl) High Atlas , Taroudant 27 km NW , 670 m , 29.IV.2013 , J. Tabell leg.; 2 ♂ (DNA sample 27451 Lepid Phyl) Agadir Prov., Agadir 8 km NNW , 140 m , 11.IV.2015 , J. Tabell leg.; 1 ♀ Anti-Atlas , Tiznit Prov. , Tafraout 24 km SW , 1125 m , 13.IV.2015 , J. Tabell leg. (all coll. TAB ) ; 1 ♂ (GP 11983 ZT) Guelmim 10 km NE , 500 m , 10.–11.IV.2013 ; 1 ♀ (GP 11991 ZT), 1 ex. , Anti Atlas Mts. , Adar vill. 4 km NE , 1800 m , 13.–14.IV.2013 , Z. Tokár leg. (all coll. TOK ) ; 1 ♂ (GP 21870 IgR) Taliouine 8 km NW , 1100 m , 12.IV.2013 ; 1 ♂ (GP 21863 IgR) Jbel Rhart Mts. , Zaona-Tafetchna 5 km SW , 1200 m , 15.IV.2013 ; 1 ♂ (GP 21851 IgR) Middle Atlas Mts. , 1900 m , 32°35.96‘ N 04°30.29’ W 17.IV.2013 , Ľ. Srnka leg., I. Richter det. (all coll. SRN ) . Molecular data. The nearest neighbour is the Nearctic C. ramitella Landry, 1994, with an 8.02 % divergence. The barcodes of C. albidorsella exhibit 0.64 % maximum intraspecific variation (n=2). Distribution: Iran, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Canary Islands: Fuerteventura, La Palma ( van der Wolf, 2009 ), Morocco. New to Africa and Morocco .