Platyedra subcinerea (Haworth, 1828)

Recurvaria subcinerea Haworth, 1828 —Lepid. Britannica (4): 548.

Gelechia vilella Zeller, 1847 —Isis von Oken 1847 (11): 845.

Platyedra argillosella Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 —Syst. Bearb. Schmett. Europ. 5 (58): fig. 514.

Gelechia bathrosticta Meyrick, 1936 —Exotic Microlep. 5 (2): 43.

Records. Amsel 1933: 125 ( vilella); Amsel 1935c: 263 ( vilella); Bodenheimer 1937: 100 ( vilella).

Material examined. 2 ♂, Jericho (Pal), Lichtfang, 11.iv.1930 (Amsel) ; 1 ♂, Jerusalem, Palastina, 27.vi.1931 (Ein- sler) (all SMNK) ; 1 ♂, Ramat, Hasharon, 5.ii.1972 (Herling) (all TAU) ; 1 ♂, Nahal Oren, Mt. Carmel, light trap, 24.vi.1997 (Pavlíček & Kravchenko) (NMPC) .

Distribution. Europe eastwards to Caucasus (Karsholt & Riedl 1996: 122; Ponomarenko 2008: 92), North Africa, Middle East, Iran, Transcaucasia, Afghanistan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Khabarovskyi krai of Russia (Lvovsky & Piskunov 1999: 75), USA (Lee et al. 2009: 32), Canada (Pohl et al. 2018: 83).