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Issue: Vol. 5847 No. 1: 8 Jul. 2026
Type: Monograph
Published: 2026-07-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5847.1.1
Page range: 1-104
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Taxonomy and faunistics of Coleophoridae in Kyrgyzstan, with descriptions of 23 new species (Lepidoptera)

Via Manzoni; 24; I-14100 Asti; Italy; Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève; C.P. 6434; CH-1211 Geneva 6; Switzerland; Contribution to the knowledge of Coleophoridae CLXIV
Tiroler Landesmuseen Betriebsges.m.b.H.; Natural History Collections; Krajnc-Str. 1; A-6060 Hall in Tirol; Austria
Lepidoptera Central Asia distribution dNA barcoding new records species diversity

Abstract

In this paper a total of 115 species of Coleophoridae are recorded from Kyrgyzstan, including 23 newly described species: Coleophora incognita sp. nov., C. suusamyrensis sp. nov., C. declivis sp. nov., C. chirghisiae sp. nov., C. antonmayri sp. nov., C. tianshanella sp. nov., C. stankorbi sp. nov., C. acutisaccula sp. nov., C. parvisaccula sp. nov., C. canaliculata sp. nov., C. gulnarae sp. nov., C. saida sp. nov., C. parapetraea sp. nov., C. farida sp. nov., C. nafisa, sp. nov., C. anara sp. nov., C. dicrusella sp. nov., C. micans sp. nov., C. corniculella sp. nov., C. bicornigera sp. nov., C. bicuspidella sp. nov., C. robusticornis sp. nov., and C. paralima sp. nov. All new species are fully illustrated, including adults and genitalia. Furthermore, neighbor-joining trees based on DNA barcodes are provided for 20 newly described species. In addition, the previously unknown female genitalia of four species—Coleophora maculosa Šumpich & Richter, 2025, C. tesquorum (Reznik, 1976), C. psamata Falkovitsh, 1973, and C. villosa (Falkovitsh, 1989)—are illustrated. DNA barcodes or corresponding BIN assignments were obtained for 98 species. 75 species are first records for Kyrgyzstan including four new findings for Asia, most of them DNA-barcode supported. However, the species list also includes 16 taxa that cannot currently be identified to species level with certainty, suggesting possible cryptic diversity and exhibiting partially discordant genetic and morphological characters.

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How to Cite

Baldizzone, G. & Huemer, P. (2026) Taxonomy and faunistics of Coleophoridae in Kyrgyzstan, with descriptions of 23 new species (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa, 5847 (1), 1–104. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5847.1.1