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 Ancylis paraobtusana Varenne, Nel & Peslier, 2020 Ancylis paraobtusana Nel, Varenne & Peslier 2020: 69 , figs. 13–18. Examined material. Holotype Ƌ: France , Alpes-Maritimes , Le Broc , 600 m , uv, 23.V.2019 , Th. Varenne leg., genitalia slide TV n°6928 ( RCTV ) . Paratype ♀ : France , Alpes-Maritimes , Lucéram , 700 m , e.l./ Rosa sp., 15.IV.2018 , Th. Varenne leg., genitalia slide TV n°6670 ( RCTV ) . Holotype : BOLD Specimen ID TLMF 28243 ; BOLD Sequence ID PALEA233-20 . Paratype : BOLD Specimen ID TLMF 28244 ; BOLD Sequence ID PALEA234-20 . BIN: none [not yet available in BOLD] Identity: Ancylis comptana (Frölich, 1828) , syn. nov. ( Fig. 4 ) Remarks. Ancylis paraobtusana was described from a male holotype and a female paratype and compared with several congeneric species, particularly with its alleged closest taxon A. obtusana (Haworth, 1811) ( Nel et al . 2020 ) . However, DNA barcodes of the successfully sequenced holotype and paratype cluster together with a specimen of A. comptana (Frölich, 1828) from Lower Austria with only 0.4% divergence; these are in turn nested among three clusters of European samples without geographic structure. On the basis of uniform morphology, these clusters are considered to belong to a single, genetically variable species. Another strongly divergent cluster from North America with ca. 2.7% divergence to the nearest neighbour in Europe remains unrevised and possibly represents a different species. We consider the described phenotypical and genital differences in the original description as individual variation and therefore synonymize A. paraobtusana with A. comptana .