Phthorimaea suasoria Meyrick, 1918

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 : 64

Phthorimaea suasoria Meyrick, 1918

Records. Amsel 1933: 125 ( suasoria ); Amsel 1935c: 263 ( ochrodeta & suasoria ); Bodenheimer 1937: 101 ( ochrodeta & suasoria ).

Remarks. Amsel (1933: 125) recorded the Indian Phthorimaea suasoria Meyrick, 1918 as “ Teleia suasoria Meyr. ” from “Palästine, Gebirge” (repeated by Bodenheimer 1937: 101). P. suasoria is similar to Ochrodia subdiminutella ( Stainton, 1867) and perhaps a synonym of that species, and we presume that the record of suasoria from Israel / Palestine is based on misidentification and belongs to O. subdiminutella .