Aristotelia mirabilis (Christoph, 1888)

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 : 18

Aristotelia mirabilis (Christoph, 1888)

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Arkaim 15.VI.1996 (1♂); Burannoe 18.VIII.2006 (1♂); Chalk Hills 11.VI.2001 (1♂).

Distribution. S Russia. Outside of Russia known from Portugal ( Karsholt 2004), Spain (O. Karsholt, unpublished) and Ukraine (Crimea) ( Bidzilya & Budashkin 2009).

Remarks. This species was described from Volgograd (Sarepta). It belongs to a group of closely related species, which has not yet been revised. Anikin et al. (1999) suppose that A. mirabilis has vanished from its type locality.