Metzneria artificella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1861)

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 : 38

Metzneria artificella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1861)

Anacampsis artificella Herrich-Schäffer, 1861 —Neue Schmett. (3): 31, fig. 158.

Parasia litigiosella Millière, 1879 —Naturaliste 1 (18): 139.

Metzneria pannonicella Rebel, 1915 —Rovart. Lapok 22: 186.

Records. Amsel 1933: 124 ( pannonicella ); Amsel 1935c: 263 ( litigiosella ); Bodenheimer 1937: 100 ( pannonicella ).

Material examined. 1 ♀, Kirjat Anawim , 22.iv.1930 (Amsel) (GU 204 W. E.) ; 1 ♀, Jericho , Palastina, 11.iv.1930 (Amsel) (all SMNK) ; 4 ♂, 2 ♀, Nizzanim , 17.vi.2012, seedhead Echinops philistaeus (Freidberg) ( TAU) ; 1 ♂, 2 ♀, Jerusalem , 6.vi.2004 (Kravchenko) ( TAU, ZMUC) .

Host plant. In Israel larvae were bred from Echinops philistaeus Feinbrun & Zohary (new host plant record).

Distribution. South and East Europe to South Ural and the Volga region ( Junnilainen et al. 2010: 21), Zabaikalskiy krai of Russia ( Ponomarenko 2008: 88), China (Hebei) ( Li 2002: 110), Lebanon ( Zerny 1934: 18), Israel.