An annotated checklist of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) of Israel with description of two new species
Author
Bidzilya, Oleksiy
Author
Karsholt, Ole
Author
Kravchenko, Vasiliy
Author
Šumpich, Jan
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-09-30
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Helcystogramma lamprostoma
(Zeller, 1847)
Gelechia lamprostoma
Zeller, 1847
—Isis von Oken 1847 (11): 851.
Anacampsis scutata
Meyrick, 1894
—Trans. ent. Soc. 1894 (1): 14.
Records.
Bodenheimer 1930a: 174
;
Amsel 1935b: 210
;
Bodenheimer 1937: 101
;
Halperin & Sauter 1992: 121
.
Material examined.
1 ♂
,
Huliot
,
27.x.1968
(
Shoham
)
;
1 ♀
, same data but
22.vi.1968
;
1 ♀
,
Jerusalem
,
6.vi.2004
(
Kravchenko
) (all
TAU
)
;
1 ♀
,
Nahal Oren
,
Mt. Carmel
,
light trap
29.x.1998
(
Pavlíček
&
Kravchenko
)
;
1 ♀
, ditto but
30.x.1997
;
1 ♀
, ditto but
19.vi.1998
;
1 ♂
, ditto but
21.v.1998
(all
NMPC
).
Host plant.
In
Israel
the larvae have been recorded feeding on
Prosopis
sp. (
Halperin & Sauter 1992: 121
).
Distribution.
Spain
(with
Canary Islands
),
Portugal
,
France
,
Malta
,
Italy
(
Sicilia
and
Sardinia
), North Africa,
Turkey
, Middle East,
India
,
Indonesia
,
Cameroon
,
Cape Verde
,
Ethiopia
,
Nigeria
,
Gambia
,
Kenya
,
Tanzania
,
Zimbabwe
,
Malawi
,
Namibia
,
South Africa
(
Karsholt & Riedl 1996: 120
;
Ponomarenko 2009: 283
;
De Prins & De Prins 2018
).
Remarks.
Gelechia lamprostoma
was described from a single male from
Sicily
. Later it was moved to the genus
Anacampsis
by
Wocke (1871)
, and the species was placed in the genus
Onebala
Walker, 1864 (
Meyrick 1925: 138
)
. Although
Hodges (1986)
had transferred the closely related
Gelechia zulu
Walsingham, 1881
to
Helcystogramma
, Old World
lepidopterists (e.g.
Karsholt & Riedl 1996: 120
;
Ponomarenko 2009: 283
) listed
lamprostoma
in
Dichomeris
Hübner, 1818
. The genitalia of
O. lamrostoma
match the genus
Helcystogramma
Zeller, 1877
and the species was placed in the latter genus in recent papers (
Agassiz & Bidzilya 2016
;
Karsholt & Huemer 2017
), but without any accompanying remarks.