Aristotelia subericinella (Duponchel, 1843)

Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, Zootaxa 2367 (1), pp. 1-68 : 17

Aristotelia subericinella (Duponchel, 1843)

Ajat river 03–05. VII.1997; Arkaim 14–19. VI.1996, 08– 09.07.1997; Bajmak 17. VI.1998; Burannoe 30.VII.2000, 29– 30.V.2004 ; Chalk Hills 03–07. VI.199821. VI.1999, 10–11.VI.2001, 25–28.V.2004, 02– 05.VIII.2005, 26–30.IX.2005, 21.VIII.2006 ; Kidriasovo 28–29.V.1998, 16.VI.1999 ; Kuvandyk 13. VI.1998; Novoiletzk 09. VI.1998; Verbljushka 30.V–02.VI.1998, 14–15.VII.1998, 17.VI.1999, 27–28.VIII.2000, 09– 10.IX.2002, 30.V.2004, 31.VII.2005 . A total of about 185 exx.

Distribution. Widely distributed from C and S Europe to S Ural. Outside Europe in Turkey, the Caucasus, C Asia and S Siberia eastwards to Mongolia.

Remarks. A. subericinella seems to be a species complex. There are three different forms in our material from S Ural. The male genitalia in these groups also differ from each other in some details.