Your BOLD sample TXLEP338-16 in BIN BOLD:AAG8587, which contains 453 specimens identified as Pigritia murtfeldtella, is a gelechiid in or near Battaristis. I would have tentatively identified it as Battaristis nigratomella. Something is amiss.

Well, you would think with at much DNA for comparison nothing would be wrong.

As for Battaristis migratomella - I have had some very similar, but I don't think this one looks like that. They all have that angular PM line.

This one reminds me more of the Holcocera genus that Ed Knudson suggested for my [thumb:1302688. Looking closely I think their palps and antenna bases are similar. I have a lot of photographs of these.

I think I was unclear. You have two samples at BOLD identified as Pigritia murtfeldtella but neither is in that genus. One is the above. Please provide the BOLD ID as I cannot find it. Your Holcocera suggestion is more reasonable.

The second, TXLEP338-16 is not the above specimen. It is one of yours but it's in the BIN for Pigritia murtfeldtella even though it is clearly near Battaristis nigratomella:

I cannot find it either. I have no explanation unless I thought the BOLD representatives in this BIN looked like this one from Schulenburg that was a mystery. It does not even have a field number in my records.

As for the Battaristis - I have it in my files as B. concinusella - dickered over that ID for a long time.

Moved it on BOLD back to Gelchiidae although it clearly had a 100% match with P. murtfeldtella. Have made a policy of naming them what BOLD has identified when it is solid. Could NOT have looked at this photograph when I made the move!

please remove the confusing "BOLD has given this specimen a 100% match to species."

Also, ask BOLD what's going on with the Battaristis sp. Did they mess up the barcode? Contamination? Switched specimens? It is possible for a bacteria to transfer COI from one individual to another causing unrelated specimens to have the same barcode but that's really rare if in fact it does happen.