Scrobipalpa aptatella (Walker, 1864)

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 : 47

Scrobipalpa aptatella (Walker, 1864)

Gelechia aptatella Walker, 1864 —List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 29: 636.

Gelechia heliopa Lower, 1900 —Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 25 (3): 417.

Records. Bodenheimer 1930a: 174 ( heliopa ); Bodenheimer 1930b: 314 ( heliopa ); Amsel 1933: 125 ( heliopa ); Amsel 1935c: 263 ( heliopa ); Bodenheimer 1937: 101 ( heliopa ); Bytinski-Salz 1966: 34 ( heliopa ).

Host plant. In Israel larvae feed in stem galls on Nicotiana tabacum L. ( Bodenheimer 1930a: 174; 1930b: 314–315).

Distribution. East Australia. Introduced into Oriental and Afrotropical regions. Records from Europe ( France, Italy, former Yugoslavia) are unconfirmed ( Huemer & Karsholt 2010: 59).

Remarks. We did not examine material of this species, but accept it on the basis of the illustrations and text by Bodenheimer (1930b: 314), based on galls with larvae found at Tel Josef, Dagania.