Scrobipalpa otregata Povolný, 1972

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 : 63

Scrobipalpa otregata Povolný, 1972

Records. Povolný (1972: 189)

Remarks. Povolný (1972: 189) described Scrobipalpa otregata from three females: the holotype from the Elburs Mts in Iran, and two paratypes from Palestine. The paratypes were stated in the original description ( Povolný 1972: 191) to be in poor condition: “Das eine Weibschen ist stark abgeflogen, … Die beide Falter sind stark from Hyphen eines Myceliums bewachsen” [One of the females is strongly worn, ... Both moths are strongly overgrown by fungal hyphae].

Parts of the female genitalia of all three type specimens were figured in the original description. From these it is clear that the paratypes from Palestine (op cit.: 193, fig. 9, 196, fig. 20) are not conspecific with the holotype from Iran (op cit.: 196, fig. 16), which would also have been surprising as the latter was found at an altitude of 1650 m, whereas Jericho is situated at low elevation. Instead they belong Scrobipalpa superstes , a species mainly distributed in western Mediterranean countries, but also found further to the east (see under that species).