Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847)

Seven, Selma, 2006, Lyonetiidae of Turkey with notes on their distribution and zoogeography (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 1245, pp. 53-58 : 55

Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847)

Synonyms: somnulentella (Zeller, 1847) ; orpheella Stainton, 1849 ; convolutella Heydenreich, 1851; staintoniella Clemens, 1860; mnesileuca Meyrick,1928 ; ipomoeae Bradley, 1953 .

Host plants

Calystegia sepium , Convolvulus arvensis , Ipomoea somnulenta , and I. batatas ( Hering 1957, Balachowsky 1966, Seksyaeva 1981, Parenti 2000).

Distribution

Northwest, South; Uzbekistan (Bukhara). Europa, Japan, North America, Australia, New Zealand ( Seksyaeva 1981).

Distribution in Turkey ( Fig. 2 ): Türkiye ( Koçak 2001).

Remarks

This species has a Palaearctic distribution ( Balachowsky 1966) and was listed in the “ Lepidoptera of Turkey ” by Koçak (2001). However, we found no records of this species in Turkey. The host plants reported in the literature, e.g., Convolvulus , Calystegia , and Ipomea , all occur in Turkey; therefore this species may be present.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Geographic distribution of Lyonetidae in Turkey.