Scrobipalpa ergasima (Meyrick, 1916)

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 : 52

Scrobipalpa ergasima (Meyrick, 1916)

Phthorimaea ergasima Meyrick, 1916 —Exot. Microlep. 1 (18): 568.

Teleia hyoscyamella Rebel, 1912 —Dt. ent. Z. Iris 26 (1): 89 (preocc. Lita hyoscyamella Stainton ).

Lita mignatella Caradja, 1920 —Dt. ent. Z. Iris 34 (1/2): 100 (Chrétien).

Phthorimaea intestina Meyrick, 1921 —Ann. Transv. Mus. 8 (2): 74.

Gnorimoschema mirabile Povolný & Gregor, 1955 —Z. Wiener ent. Ges. 40: 85.

Gnorimoschema pervada Clarke, 1962 —Ent. News 73: 101.

Scrobipalpa epithymella auct.

Records. Bodenheimer 1930a: 174; Bodenheimer 1930b: 323; Amsel & Hering 1931: 147; Bodenheimer 1937: 100; Bytinski- Salz 1966: 34 (all as Lita epithymella Stgr. , misidentification).

Material examined. 1 ♀, Jericho , 31.v.1930 (Amsel) (gen. slide GU 320y) ( SMNK) ; 1 ♀, Jericho, Kalia , v.2004 (Kravchenko) ; 1 ♂, Jerusalem, 6.vi.2004 (Kravchenko) (all TAU) .

Host plant. A pest on Solanum melongena L. ( Bodenheimer 1930a: 174; Amsel & Hering 1931: 147; Bytinski-Salz 1966: 34).

Distribution. South of Palaearctic region to Japan, Africa, South-East Asia ( Huemer & Karsholt 2010: 192).