Ephysteris promptella (Staudinger, 1859)

D, Nandhini, R, Shashank P., Joshi, Rahul & Reddy, Karthik M., 2024, A catalogue of Indian Gelechiidae Stainton, 1854 (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea), Zootaxa 5420 (1), pp. 1-121 : 81-82

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5420.1.1
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scientific name	Ephysteris promptella (Staudinger, 1859)
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269. Ephysteris promptella (Staudinger, 1859) View in CoL

Gelechia (Lita) promptella Staudinger, 1859: 241 View in CoL ; TL: Spain, Chiclana (Syntypes ♂) ( MFN) .

= Tinea despectella Walker, 1863: 477 ; TL: West Africa , Sierra Leone (Holotype ♂) ( NHMUK) .

= Gelechia petiginella Mann, 1867: 843 View in CoL ; TL: Austria, Kalvarienberge , Bozen (Syntypes) ( NHMW) .

= Doryphora parvula Staudinger, 1879: 323 View in CoL ; TL: Turkey, Kerasdere (Holotype ♀) ( MFN) .

= Aristotelia cacomicra Walsingham, [1908] View in CoL 1907: 931; TL: Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife, Santa Cruz (Holotype ♂) ( NHMUK) .

= Ephysteris chersaea Meyrick, 1908c: 725 View in CoL ; TL: South Africa, Transvaal , Pretoria (Syntypes ♂ ♀) ( TMSA, NHMUK) .

= Ephysteris oschophora Meyrick, 1910d: 219 View in CoL ; TL: India, Calcutta & Purneah, Bengal (now Kolkata in West Bengal and Purnia in Bihar); Sri Lanka [Ceylon], Maskeliya, Diyatalawa (Syntypes ♂ ♀) ( NHMUK) .

= Phthorimaea dispensata Meyrick, 1921a: 73 View in CoL ; TL: South Africa, Transvaal , Pretoria (Syntypes ♂ ♀) ( TMSA) .

= Phthorimaea fanatica Meyrick, 1921a: 73 View in CoL ; TL: South Africa, Victoria Falls , Rhodesia (Type ♂) ( TMSA) .

= Metzneria xanthorhabda Gozmány, 1951: 20 View in CoL ; TL: Hungary (Type & repository unknown).

Distribution: India: Bihar (Purnia) and West Bengal (Kolkata). Elsewhere : Australia, China, New Guinea, Rhodesia, South Africa, South Palaearctic, Sri Lanka, and Ukraine ( Li & Bidzilya 2008).

Illustrations: Adult and genitalia ( Clarke 1969b: 59; Li & Bidzilya 2008: 47).

Host: Andropogon sp. , Oryza sp. , Panicum sp. , Saccharum officinarum , Sorghum sp. , Stipa sp. , Triticum sp. ( Poaceae ) (Robinson et al. 2023).