A peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeys 746:Deep 51–90 intraspecific (2018) DNA barcode splits and hybridisation in theUdea alpinalis group... 51 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.746.22020 RESEARCH ARTICLE http://zookeys.pensoft.net Launched to accelerate biodiversity research Deep intraspecific DNA barcode splits and hybridisation in the Udea alpinalis group (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Crambidae) – an integrative revision Richard Mally1, Peter Huemer2, Matthias Nuss3 1 University Museum of Bergen, Natural History Collections, Realfagbygget, Allégaten 41, 5007 Bergen, Norway 2 Tiroler Landesmuseen Betriebsges.m.b.H., Natural History Department, Collections and Research Center, Krajnc-Str. 1, 6060 Hall, Austria 3 Senckenberg Museum of Zoology, Königsbrücker Landstraße 159, 01109 Dresden, Germany Corresponding author: Richard Mally (
[email protected]) Academic editor: C. Plant | Received 2 November 2017 | Accepted 15 February 2018 | Published 13 March 2018 http://zoobank.org/DF12B2D0-4155-4B10-B3A3-A0B1E755DFF6 Citation: Mally R, Huemer P, Nuss M (2018) Deep intraspecific DNA barcode splits and hybridisation in the Udea alpinalis group (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Crambidae) – an integrative revision. ZooKeys 746: 51–90. https://doi. org/10.3897/zookeys.746.22020 Abstract The analysis of mitochondrial COI data for the European-Centroasian montaneUdea alpinalis species group finds deep intraspecific splits. Specimens ofU. austriacalis and U. rhododendronalis separate into several biogeographical groups. These allopatric groups are not recovered in the analyses of the two nuclear markers wingless and Elongation factor 1-alpha, except for U. austriacalis from the Pyrenees and the French Massif Central. The latter populations are also morphologically distinct and conspecific with Scopula donzelalis Guenée, 1854, which is removed from synonymy and reinstated as Udea donzelalis (Guenée, 1854) stat.