Ornativalva plutelliformis (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 : 44

Ornativalva plutelliformis (Staudinger, 1859)

Gelechia plutelliformis Staudinger, 1859 —Stettin ent. Ztg 20 (7–9): 239.

Alucita olbiaella Millière , [1861]—Icon. Desc. Chenilles Lepid. 1: 193, pl. 21, fig. 1–6.

Hypsolophus siewersiellus Christoph, 1867 —Stettin Ent. Ztg 28 (4–6): 239.

Gelechia sinuatella Walsingham, 1904 —Ent. mon. Mag. 40: 223.

Records. Amsel 1933: 125; Amsel 1935b: 210; Bodenheimer 1937: 100; Sattler 1967:72.

Material examined. 2 ♀, Südende d. Toten Meers, 15-27.iii.1933 (Amsel) ; 1 ♀, Jordan valley, Zerqua R. Colny, c. 100 m below S.L., at light (Trevor Trought) ; 1 ♀, Jordanbrücke , Jericho, 31.v.1930 (Amsel) (all SMNK) ; 6 ♂, 15 ♀, Hazeva , Field School, 24.ii, 8,21,26.iii, 20, 21, 23, 26.iv, 4,9,17,18. v.1998 (Ashkenazi) ; 3 ♀, Hazeva , Field School, 7.i, 16.vii, 24.viii.1997 (Maklakov) ; 1 ♀, En-Zin , 17.i.1999 (Yarom & Kravchenko) ; 1 ♀, Wingeit , 26.viii.1968; 1 Ein Gedi, 16.viii.1968 (all TAU) ; 3 ♂, 2 ♀, 103 exx, Jericho , Kalia, v.2004 (Kravchenko) (gen. slide 5490 Hendrik- sen) ( TAU, ZMUC) .

Host plant. In Israel the larvae were recorded feeding on Tamarix sp. ( Bodenheimer, 1937: 100).

Distribution. South Europe to Lower Volga, Canary Islands, North Africa, Middle East ( Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria), Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, China (Xinjiang) ( Sattler 1976: 132; Li 2002: 84; Falkovitsh & Bidzilya 2009: 69).