taxonID	type	description	language	source
24742B6CB00D5A9C91A52FC1BC0BCE08.taxon	description	Fig. 2 (male habitus); Fig. 3 (male genitalia); Fig. 4 (female habitus); Fig. 5 (female genitalia); Fig. 6 (holotype specimen)	en	Monckton, Spencer K., Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie, Thompson, Ken A., Barnes, Aidan, French, Kami, Hampton, Hunter, Hebert, Paul D. N. (2025): The brown copper moth, Tridentaforma browncopper: DNA barcoding reveals a second species in the family Tridentaformidae (Lepidoptera, Adeloidea). ZooKeys 1257: 25-38, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1257.158827
24742B6CB00D5A9C91A52FC1BC0BCE08.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Females can be distinguished by the structure of their ovipositor (Fig. 5) with T 8 slightly widened and broadly truncate apically (in T. fuscoleuca it is narrower and subacute apically), anterior and posterior apophyses approximately equal in length (in T. fuscoleuca the anterior apophysis is distinctly shorter than the posterior apophysis), although the latter character requires dissection to assess. Males are easily distinguished by the presence of four pectens along the ventral margin of the valva (Fig. 3), while T. fuscoleuca has three. The species can be identified by COI DNA barcoding as it possesses diagnostic substitutions at three nucleotide positions (118 - C; 250 - C; 277 - A), which differentiate it from the other seven Tridentaforma BINs.	en	Monckton, Spencer K., Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie, Thompson, Ken A., Barnes, Aidan, French, Kami, Hampton, Hunter, Hebert, Paul D. N. (2025): The brown copper moth, Tridentaforma browncopper: DNA barcoding reveals a second species in the family Tridentaformidae (Lepidoptera, Adeloidea). ZooKeys 1257: 25-38, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1257.158827
24742B6CB00D5A9C91A52FC1BC0BCE08.taxon	description	Description. Small, slender-bodied moths; primarily brown with silvery, pale-brown scales; wing expanse 8.5 – 10.5 mm. Head: antenna 40 – 44 segmented, simple, approximately 0.7 – 0.8 × length of forewing. Compound eye moderately large, eye index approximately 1.1 – 1.2. Labial palp three-segmented with apical segment shorter (approximately 0.8 × length of second). Thorax: foretibia with pectinate epiphysis from middle, extending approximately halfway to apex. Forewing somewhat narrow, greatest width about 3.3 × length. Abdomen: female seventh sternite 2.0 – 2.4 × length of sixth. Male genitalia: uncus reduced, consisting of two small lobes. Vinculum and saccus well developed, saccus elongate and approximately Y-shaped, gradually tapering basally to about ¼ of its maximum apical width; total length 1.3 × length of valva (Fig. 3 B). Valva somewhat helical, relatively narrow in dorsal and ventral view, broad in lateral view; a series of four pectens spaced along its ventral margin, each of the apical three consisting of a short transverse row of 4 – 7 stout, spatulate spines, longer medially, the last 2 – 3 spines noticeably less-sclerotized and anteriorly directed; the ventral pecten consisting of 2 relatively long, less-sclerotized spines. Juxta (Fig. 3 C) reduced in size, about 1 / 3 as long as median branch of phallus, and slender, produced anteriorly to a sharp point. Phallus (Fig. 3 A) three-branched, median branch more than twice as long as lateral branches. Female genitalia: apex of ovipositor slender, slightly flattened dorsoventrally, truncate, with smooth margins (Fig. 5). Anterior and posterior apophyses extremely slender and elongate, approximately equal in length to one another and about twice as long as T 8. Proximal margin of T 8 dorsally produced to an acute angle; apex of T 8 broadly truncate and slightly widened relative to subapical constriction.	en	Monckton, Spencer K., Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie, Thompson, Ken A., Barnes, Aidan, French, Kami, Hampton, Hunter, Hebert, Paul D. N. (2025): The brown copper moth, Tridentaforma browncopper: DNA barcoding reveals a second species in the family Tridentaformidae (Lepidoptera, Adeloidea). ZooKeys 1257: 25-38, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1257.158827
24742B6CB00D5A9C91A52FC1BC0BCE08.taxon	etymology	Etymology. nłeʔképmx Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and people of the Citxw Nlaka’pamux Assembly chose skʷu ́ nkʷl ̓ itkax ̣ n ̓ I as the name for this species, which means “ brown copper moth ”. Translation was required because the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999) prohibits non-Latin characters. As a result, the CNA selected the species epithet “ browncopper ”, a compound noun in apposition formed from its English name.	en	Monckton, Spencer K., Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie, Thompson, Ken A., Barnes, Aidan, French, Kami, Hampton, Hunter, Hebert, Paul D. N. (2025): The brown copper moth, Tridentaforma browncopper: DNA barcoding reveals a second species in the family Tridentaformidae (Lepidoptera, Adeloidea). ZooKeys 1257: 25-38, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1257.158827
24742B6CB00D5A9C91A52FC1BC0BCE08.taxon	distribution	Distribution. This species is only known from the Thompson Plateau in south-central British Columbia, Canada.	en	Monckton, Spencer K., Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie, Thompson, Ken A., Barnes, Aidan, French, Kami, Hampton, Hunter, Hebert, Paul D. N. (2025): The brown copper moth, Tridentaforma browncopper: DNA barcoding reveals a second species in the family Tridentaformidae (Lepidoptera, Adeloidea). ZooKeys 1257: 25-38, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1257.158827
5F240ADB0C045588A6A7A28BA416E99F.taxon	description	Figs 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	en	Monckton, Spencer K., Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie, Thompson, Ken A., Barnes, Aidan, French, Kami, Hampton, Hunter, Hebert, Paul D. N. (2025): The brown copper moth, Tridentaforma browncopper: DNA barcoding reveals a second species in the family Tridentaformidae (Lepidoptera, Adeloidea). ZooKeys 1257: 25-38, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1257.158827
5F240ADB0C045588A6A7A28BA416E99F.taxon	type_taxon	Type species. Lampronia fuscoleuca Braun, 1923.	en	Monckton, Spencer K., Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie, Thompson, Ken A., Barnes, Aidan, French, Kami, Hampton, Hunter, Hebert, Paul D. N. (2025): The brown copper moth, Tridentaforma browncopper: DNA barcoding reveals a second species in the family Tridentaformidae (Lepidoptera, Adeloidea). ZooKeys 1257: 25-38, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1257.158827
5F240ADB0C045588A6A7A28BA416E99F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. The genus is distinguished by a trident-like male phallus (Fig. 3 A) with slender lateral branches about half as long as the median branch (or nearly so), and by a broad valva bearing three or four discrete, transverse rows of spines (pectens) along its ventral margin (Fig. 3 B).	en	Monckton, Spencer K., Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie, Thompson, Ken A., Barnes, Aidan, French, Kami, Hampton, Hunter, Hebert, Paul D. N. (2025): The brown copper moth, Tridentaforma browncopper: DNA barcoding reveals a second species in the family Tridentaformidae (Lepidoptera, Adeloidea). ZooKeys 1257: 25-38, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1257.158827
