Ephysteris promptella (Staudinger, 1859)

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 : 53

Ephysteris promptella (Staudinger, 1859)

Gelechia (Lita) promptella Staudinger, 1859 —Stettin ent. Ztg 20 (7–9): 241.

Tinea despectella Walker, 1863 —List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 28: 477.

Gelechia petiginella Mann, 1867 —Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 17: 843.

Doryphora parvula Staudinger, 1879 —Horae Soc. Ent. Ross. 15 (2–3): 323.

Aristotelia cacomicra Walsingham , [1908]—Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1907: 931.

Ephysteris chersaea Meyrick, 1908 —Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1908: 725.

Ephysteris oschophora Meyrick, 1910 —Rec. Ind. Mus. 5: 219.

Phthorimaea dispensata Meyrick, 1921 —Ann. Transv. Mus. 8 (2): 73.

Phthorimaea fanatica Meyrick, 1921 —Ann. Transv. Mus. 8 (2): 73.

Metzneria xanthorhabda Gozmány, 1951 —Folia ent. hung. 4 (3): 20.

Ephysteris (Ephysteris) promptella australiae Povolný, 1977 –Acta Ent. Mus. Nat. Pragae 39: 423.

Material examined. 1 ♀, Kabri , 16 km NE Haifa, 12.x.1971 (Gerling) ; 1 ♀, Abu-Gorke , 23.vi.1968 ; 1 ♀, Kefar- Shemud , 28.x.1968 (all TAU) .

Distribution. South Europe, Canary Islands, Madeira, Middle East, Pakistan ( Huemer & Karsholt 2010: 210), South China ( Li & Bidzilya 2008: 47), Afrotropical and Indo-Australian regions ( Povolný 2002: 87), Israel (new record).