Scrobipalpa suaedivorella (Chrétien, 1915)

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 : 50-51

Scrobipalpa suaedivorella (Chrétien, 1915)

Lita suaedivorella Chrétien, 1915 —Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 84: 320.

Lita detersipunctella Toll, 1947 —Z. wien. ent. Ges. 32: 114, pl. 4, fig. 23.

Material. 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Nabi Musa , 27.i, 18.ii ; 2 ♀, Birkat Zefira , 9.ii.2016, ex Suaeda asphaltica (Keidar) ; 1 ♂, Mirpe, Jeriho , 18.i.20-16 (Dorchin) ; 1 ♂, Arad, 9.ii.2016, ex Suaeda asphaltica (Kedar) (all TAU) .

Host plant. The larvae were recorded feeding on various species of Suaeda (Falkovitsh & Bidzilya 2006: 75; Huemer & Karsholt 2010: 142), Salicornia sp. and Salsola tetragona Delile ( Povolný 2002: 72) . In Israel the species was bred from Suaeda asphaltica (Boiss.) Boiss. (new host plant record).

Distribution. Spain, Russia (Volgograd region) ( Huemer & Karsholt 2010: 142), Tunisia, Algeria, Turkey, Iran ( Povolný 2002: 72), Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, ( Falkovitsh & Bidzilya 2009: 77), Israel (new record).