Schneidereria pistaciella Weber, 1957

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 : 58

Schneidereria pistaciella Weber, 1957

Schneidereria pistaciella Weber, 1957 —Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges. 30 (1): 68.

Records. Halperin & Sauter 1992: 135 (? pistaciella ).

Host plant. In Israel the larvae have been recorded feeding in fruits of Pistacia vera L. ( Halperin & Sauter 1992: 135).

Distrubution. Ukraine, Greece, Cyprus, Syria ( Huemer & Karsholt 2001: 45). Probably also Iran and Iraq ( Sattler 1982: 16), Israel.

Remarks. Schneidereria pistaciella can easily be separated from other species of Litini which larvae feed on Pistacia with exception for Schneidereria pistaciicola (Danilevsky, 1955) . However, the latter is restricted to Central Asia. Therefore, we suggest that the questionable record of S. pistaciella from Israel ( Halperin & Sauter 1992: 135) should most likely be referred to this specis rather than to S. pistaciicola .