Anarsia balioneura Meyrick, 1921

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 : 20

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4677.1.1

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4C4D8782-2B68-FFAD-3A85-2CA1CE468281

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scientific name

Anarsia balioneura Meyrick, 1921
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Anarsia balioneura Meyrick, 1921 View in CoL

Figs 20, 21 View FIGS 20–21 .

Anarsia balioneura Meyrick, 1921 —Ann. Transv. Mus. 8 (2): 79. Material examined. 1 ♂, 4 ♀, Tel Aviv, Botanical garden, 14, 15.iv.2018, light (Kravchenko & Bidzilya) ( TAU, ZMKU) .

Additional material. 1 ♂, Cyprus ( North ), Akdeniz Plaji, 10 m, 1-3.iv.2008 (Skule & Hviid) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Libya, Gharian , Wadi el Hira, 1.vi.1983 (Seneca) (all ZMUC) .

Host plant. The larva feeds on six Acacia -species in Kenya ( Agassiz & Bidzilya 2016: 120). The specimens collected in the Botanical garden in Tel Aviv most likely live on one of the Acacia -species growing there.

Distribution. Zimbabwe, Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Cape Verde ( Agassiz & Bidzilya 2016: 120), Cyprus, Israel, Libya (new records).

Remarks. The specimens from Israel match well both superficially and in genitalia specimens of A. balioneura from Africa.

TAU

Tel-Aviv University

ZMKU

Kiev Zoological Museum

ZMUC

Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gelechiidae

Genus

Anarsia

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