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Issue: Vol. 5719 No. 3: 13 Nov. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-11-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5719.3.1
Page range: 301-326
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Taxonomic and nomenclatorial notes on the Catoptria coulonellus (Duponchel) species group with description of five new species from Western Balkans (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae)

Via Sant’Agostino; 51; 10051 Avigliana (Torino); Italy; Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève; C.P. 6434; CH-1211 Geneva 6; Switzerland.
Tiroler Landesmuseen Betriebsges.m.b.H.; Sammlungs- und Forschungszentrum; Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen; Krajnc-Straße 1; A-6060 Hall in Tirol; Austria.
Lepidoptera Crambinae DNA barcodes Palearctic new species new synonymy species reinstated

Abstract

The extensive study of the original descriptions and of rich material allowed us to review the Catoptria coulonellus species group, with its species C. coulonellus (Duponchel, 1836) sp. reinst., C. combinella ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775) = C. petrificella (Hübner, 1796) syn. nov., C. hannemanni Alberti, 1967, C. orientellus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1850), C. spodiellus (Rebel, 1916), C. trichostomus (Christoph, 1858), C. lythargyrella (Hübner, 1796), C. domaviellus (Rebel, 1904), C. nikai sp. nov., C. richteri sp. nov., C. kasyi Błeszyński, 1960, C. korab sp. nov., C. plat sp. nov., C. sarplanina sp. nov., and C. biformellus (Rebel, 1893). Neotypes of C. combinella, C. petrificella, C. orientellus and C. lythargyrella are designated to fix the identity of these names. All species are fully illustrated, females of C. hannemanni for the first time. Finally, DNA barcodes are provided for a selection of available species and applied for an integrative species delimitation.

 

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How to Cite

Bassi, G. & Huemer, P. (2025) Taxonomic and nomenclatorial notes on the Catoptria coulonellus (Duponchel) species group with description of five new species from Western Balkans (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae). Zootaxa, 5719 (3), 301–326. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5719.3.1