Identity of some recently described Lepidoptera from France-re-assessed with DNA barcodes and morphology Author Huemer, Peter Tiroler Landesmuseen Betriebsges. m. b. H., Sammlungs- und Forschungszentrum, Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen, Krajnc-Str. 1, A- 6060 Hall, Austria Author Van Nieukerken, Erik J. 0000-0002-5721-1840 Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box 9517, NL- 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5721 - 1840 Corresponding author. p. huemer @ tiroler-landesmuseen. at; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0630 - 545 X p.huemer@tiroler-landesmuseen.at text Zootaxa 2021 2021-03-09 4941 3 301 337 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.1 1175-5326 4595123 EAFCA1C4-7C08-487F-BA6E-DD74D0A33E19 Aproaerema cottiennella (Nel, 2012) Syncopacma cottiennella Nel 2012: 102 , figs. 1–4. Examined material. Holotype Ƌ: France , Bauchas , col de Montgenèvre , 1850 m , Hautes-Alpes, 26.VII.2011 , J. Nel leg., genitalia slide JN n°25656 ( RCJN ) [ TLMF ]. BOLD Specimen ID TLMF 28238; BOLD Sequence ID PALEA228-20. BIN: BOLD:AEC2352 Identity: Aproaerema cottiennella (Nel, 2012) Remarks. Syncopacma cottiennela was described from a male holotype and a female paratype (Nel 2012) and separated from several externally similar species by characters of the male genitalia. The DNA barcode sequence of the holotype was already published by Huemer et al. (2020) and clearly differs from all other European Aproaerema (a senior synonym of Syncopacma ), thus supporting a separate species.