Pseudosophronia exustellus (Zeller, 1847)

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 : 9

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

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scientific name

Pseudosophronia exustellus (Zeller, 1847)
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Pseudosophronia exustellus (Zeller, 1847) View in CoL

Ypsolophus exustellus Zeller, 1847 —Isis von Oken 1847 (11): 820.

Sophronia catharurga Meyrick, 1923 View in CoL , syn. nov. — Exot. Microlep. 3 (1–2): 34.

Sophronia parahumerella Amsel, 1935 View in CoL , syn. nov. —Mitt. zool. Mus. Berl. 20 (2): 297.

Sophronia buvati Nel, 1998 View in CoL —Alexanor 20(4): 228, figs 17–23.

Records. Amsel 1933: 126; Amsel 135a: 297, pl. 11, fig. 95; Amsel 1935c: 265; Bodenheimer 1937: 102 ( parahumerella View in CoL ; catharurga View in CoL ); Bytinski-Salz & Sternlicht 1967: 130; Halperin & Sauter 1992: 122.

Material examined. Holotype of S. parahumerella ♀, Tel Aviv, Paläs., Düne , 17.ix.1930 (Amsel) ( SMNK); 2 ♂, 1 ♀ Kefar Shemuel, 15.iv.1968 (gen. slide 128/ 18♂, 129/ 18♀, O. Bidzilya ( TAU); 4 ♂, Jericho, Kalia, v.2004 (Kravchenko) ( TAU, ZMUC).

Remarks. Specimens from Israel match both externally and genitally ( Figs 1–4 View FIGS 1–4 ) Pseudosophronia exustellus ( Nel 1998; Corley 2001). They also agree in all details with the female holotype of Sophronia catharurga collected in Akka, Israel ( Clarke 1969: 376, pl. 188, figs 1–1b). The female holotype of Sophronia parahumerella described from the vicinity of Tel Aviv is identical to P. exustellus too ( Fig. 2 View FIGS 1–4 ). Hence, we propose the following synonymy: Sophronia catharurga Meyrick, 1923 and Sophronia parahumerella Amsel, 1935 syn. nov. of Pseudosophronia exustellus (Zeller, 1847) .

Host plant. Unknown. The record of Quercus ithaburensis Decne. as a host plant for larvae of P. exustellus in Israel ( Bytinski-Salz & Sternlicht 1967: 130; Halperin & Sauter 1992: 122) requires verification.

Distribution. Spain, Portugal, France, Italy (including Sicily) ( Karsholt & Riedl 1996: 118), Israel.

SMNK

Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)

TAU

Tel-Aviv University

ZMUC

Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gelechiidae

Genus

Pseudosophronia

Loc

Pseudosophronia exustellus (Zeller, 1847)

Bidzilya, Oleksiy, Karsholt, Ole, Kravchenko, Vasiliy & Šumpich, Jan 2019
2019
Loc

Sophronia buvati

Nel 1998
1998
Loc

Sophronia parahumerella

Amsel 1935
1935
Loc

parahumerella

Amsel 1935
1935
Loc

Sophronia catharurga

Meyrick 1923
1923
Loc

catharurga

Meyrick 1923
1923
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