Eretmocera medinella ( Staudinger, 1859 )

Marabuto, Eduardo, 2022, Spialia rosae Hernández-Roldán, DApporto, Dincă, Vicente & VilA, 2016, and 17 moth species new for the fauna of Portugal (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25, pp. 305-322 : 308

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.12812142
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038F980D-FFC0-843B-D3F2-FDC99B5ED27A
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Eretmocera medinella ( Staudinger, 1859 )
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6. Eretmocera medinella ( Staudinger, 1859) View in CoL

— EVOA, Vila Franca de Xira, Lisboa. 1 m a.s.l. MGRS: 29 SNC0299 About SNC . VIII.2017 & 27.VIII.2019. Pedro Henriques leg., Eduardo Marabuto det. Several specimens. Daytime spotting. ( Fig. 1i View Fig ) .

A day-flying small moth private to salt-marshes and salt-steppes but apparently very local. It was first described from Chiclana (Cádiz, Andalucía) by Staudinger (1859) and all Spanish records still come from the Atlantic shores of this autonomous community ( Huertas Dionisio, 2002, 2007). Otherwise, the species has been recorded from Sicily, Cyprus, eastern Turkey, Central Asia, S. Ural, Iran, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia ( Walsingham, 1889; Rungs, 1967, 1979; Bengtsson, 1997; Nupponen et al., 2000; Özbek, 2009; Barton, 2018). This species is apparently oligophagous on hallophytic Amaranthaceae View in CoL and larvae have been cited on Beta vulgaris , Salsola vermiculata View in CoL , Atriplex halimus View in CoL , Atriplex patula View in CoL ( Huertas Dionisio, 2002, 2007), Atriplex prostrata ( Huertas Dionisio, 2007) View in CoL , Halogeton sativus ( Rungs, 1967) View in CoL and probably Atriplex semibaccata ( Barton, 2018) View in CoL .