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 perplexella Toll, 1960 Barcode Index Number: BOLD:AEF9109 Material studied. 27 ♂ (GP 5070 J. Tabell, DNA sample 21968 Lepid Phyl; DNA sample 21967 Lepid Phyl [barcoding failed]), 1 ♀ (GP 5088 J. Tabell) Middle Atlas , Azrou 3 km NW , 1240 m , 7.V.2013 at 7–7.30 am, J. Tabell leg., G. Baldizzone det. (coll. TAB ); 3 ♂ Meknès-Tafilalet , Azrou , 33°28´14´´: -5°14´43´´, 1260 m , 5.V.2011 , J. & A. Kullberg leg. (coll. MZH ) . Molecular data. The nearest neighbour is C. fretella Zeller, 1847 with an 8.08 % divergence. There exists a 1.6 % barcode gap between the Spanish and Moroccan specimens, which may indicate cryptic diversity. Distribution. Algeria , France , Morocco , Portugal , Sardinia, Spain , Tunisia ( Tautel & Nel 2009 ). Reported for the first time from Morocco by Baldizzone et al . (2006) . Note. Males collected by JT were swarming in the morning between 7:00–7:30 (summer time), the female was detected in copula. Not a single adult was captured at night by light.