Aristotelia billii Varenne & Nel 2013

Aristotelia billii Varenne & Nel, 2013 Aristotelia billii Varenne & Nel 2013a: 17, figs. 1–2, 4. Examined material. Holotype Ƌ: France, Alpes-Maritimes, Chabanes, Toudon, 1070 m, u.v., 10.VIII.2012, Th. Varenne leg., genitalia slide JN n°26073 (RCTV). BOLD Specimen ID TLMF 22304; BOLD Sequence ID LEASS656-17. BIN: BOLD:AAW5816 Identity: Aristotelia billii Varenne & Nel, 2013, identity uncertain. Remarks. Aristotelia billii was described from a male holotype and from two male and five female paratypes (Nel & Varenne 2013a) and separated from the similar A. subericinella Duponchel, 1843 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 topotypical A. subericinella collected in eastern Austria. Moreover, it differs externally from A. leonhardi Krone, 1907, the only European species of the A. subericinella species-group without barcode (Huemer et al. 2020). However, the genus Aristotelia, and particularly the A. subericinella species group including A. billii, are in need of a taxonomic revision.