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Neighbor-joining tree of Celypha doubledayana incl. C. paludicolella and the closest European species C. rurestrana (Duponchel, 1843) in BOLD.
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Seventy-three species of Lepidoptera described from France since 2000, particularly by Jacques Nel and Thierry Varenne, are reassessed from largely unpublished molecular data. We tried to obtain DNA barcode sequences from 62 holotypes, supplemented by paratypes of eight species and on one case by non-type material, whereas one previously synonymize...
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... (Fig. 5) Remarks. Celypha paludicolella was described from a female holotype and a female paratype and compared with C. rivulana (Scopoli, 1763) and C. lacunana ( [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775) (Varenne & Nel 2017a). However, the DNA barcode sequence of the holotype as well as adult morphology correspond to C. doubledayana (Barrett, 1872), a ...
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