Metzneria ehikeella Gozmány, 1954

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 : 38-39

Metzneria ehikeella Gozmány, 1954

Metzneria ehikeella Gozmány, 1954 —Ann. hist.-nat. Mus. Natn. Hung. 46: 276.

Material examined. 2 ♂, Bet Dagan, 17.viii.2009, 5.ix.2010 (Kuslitzky) | seedhead Centaurea procurrens (gen. slide 153/18, O. Bidzilya); 1 ♂, Mizpe Netofa, 15.vii.2010 (Kuslitzky) | seedhead Carlina curetum ; 1 ♂, 2 ♀, Re- hovod,, 10.vi., 7.vii.2009 (Kuslitzky) | reared from Centaurea procurrens ; 1 ♀, Rehovot,, 20.viii.2010 (Kuslitzky) / flower of Centaurea procurrens ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, same data but 2.viii.2010 (Argov) / seadhead Centaurea procurrens ( TAU) ; 1♀, Giv’at Brenner, 12.vii.2009 (Kuslitzky) | from flower of Centaurea procurrens ; 3 ♀, Nes Ziyyona, 5.viii.2010 (Kuslitzky) | flower of Centaurea procurrens ; 1 ♀, Mashmar Dawid, 21.vii.2010 (Kuslitzky) | seadhead Centaurea hyalolepis ( TAU, ZMKU) .

Host plant. In Israel larvae feed on Centaurea procurrens Spreng , Carlina curetum Halácsy and Centaurea hyalolepis Boiss. (new host plant records).

Distribution. Europe to Ural Mountains, Algeria, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Caucasus, Central Asia to China (Xinjiang) ( Englert 1974; Elsner et al. 1999; Li 2002: 107; Junnilainen et al. 2010: 21), Israel (new record).