Scrobipalpa instabilella (Douglas, 1846)

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 : 51

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4677.1.1
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scientific name	Scrobipalpa instabilella (Douglas, 1846)
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Scrobipalpa instabilella (Douglas, 1846) View in CoL

Anacampsis instabilella Douglas, 1846 —Zoologist 4: 1270.

Lita lagunella Chrétien, 1910 —Naturaliste 32: 272.

Lita strobilacella Caradja, 1920 —Dt. ent. Z. Iris 34 (1/2): 101.

Lita salsolella Amsel, 1935 —Mitt. zool. Mus. Berl. 20 (2): 301.

Phthorimaea halymiphaga Amsel, 1952 View in CoL —Fragm. ent. Roma 1: 127.

Records. Amsel 1933: 125 ( salsolella ); Amsel 1935a: 301 ( salsolella ); Amsel 1935c: 263 ( salsolella ); Bodenheimer 1937: 100 ( salsolella ).

Material examined. 1 ♂, 2 ♀, Jordanbrucke bei Jericho, 10, 29.iv.1930, Lichtfng. (Amsel) (gen. slides A807, A.815. A.802); 1 ♀, Jericho (Pal), Lichtfang, 31.v.1930 (gen. slide A.822) ; 1 ♂, Georgskloster, Wadi el Kelt, 21.v.1930 (gen. slide A.835); 1 ♀, Südende d. Toten Meers, 15-27.iii.1933 (Amsel) (gen. slide A.841) (all SMNK) .

Host plant. In Israel the larvae were recorded feeding on Salsola orientalis Gmel. (as S. rigida Pall. ) ( Amsel 1935a: 301). It is described by Amsel (1935c: 263).

Distribution. Western and southern Europe, North Africa, Israel ( Huemer & Karsholt 2010: 189).