Teleiopsis diffinis (Haworth, 1828)

Bidzilya, Oleksiy, Karsholt, Ole, Kravchenko, Vasiliy & Šumpich, Jan, 2019, An annotated checklist of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) of Israel with description of two new species, Zootaxa 4677 (1), pp. 1-68 : 60

Teleiopsis diffinis (Haworth, 1828)

Recurvaria diffinis Haworth, 1828 —Lepid. Britannica (4): 551

Lita dissimilella Treitschke, 1833 —in Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. 9 (2): 80

Lita friesella Zetterstedt, 1839 —Insecta Lapponica: 1005

Gelechia scabidella Zeller, 1839 —Isis [32] 1839 (3): 199

Gelechia diffinella [= diffinis ] Doubleday, 1859—Zool. Syn. List Br. Butts Moths (edn 2): 30 (emend.)

Gelechia diffinis ab. groenliensis Strand, 1920—Archiv Naturg. 85 A (4): 65

Material examined. 1 ♂, Nahal Teqoa, 31˚38’N 35˚14’E, 650 m, 31.iii.2009 (Freidberg) (gen. slide 147/18, O. Bidzilya) ( TAU) .

Distribution. Europe, North Africa, South-Western and Central Asia ( Huemer & Karsholt 1999: 91), Russia: North and Central of the European part to South Ural ( Ponomarenko 2008; Junnilainen et al. 2010), Altaiskiy krai ( Bidzilya & Nupponen 2018: 385), Israel (new record).