Anarsia lineatella Zeller, 1839

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 : 22-23

Anarsia lineatella Zeller, 1839

Anarsia lineatella Zeller, 1839 —Isis [32] 1839 (3): 190.

Tinea pullatella Hübner, 1796 —Samml. eur. Schmett. [8]: pl. 17, fig. 118.

Anarsia ? pruniella Clemens, 1860—Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 12: 169.

Ananarsia lineatella heratella Amsel, 1967 —Beitr. naturk. Forsch. SüdwDtl. 26 (3): 27.

Ananarsia lineatella tauricella Amsel, 1967 —Beitr. naturk. Forsch. SüdwDtl. 26 (3): 20.

Records. Bodenheimer 1930a: 174; Bodenheimer, 1930b: 235–236; Amsel 1933: 126; Bodenheimer 1937: 102. Material examined. 1 ♀, Yizre’el , 40 km SE Haifa, 2.x.1972, coll. Besky | P.f. -2-1376 (1550), ex/on young fruit, plant coll. on: 10.ix.1972 ; 1 ♂ (abdomen missing), Wadi Auja , 10 km N Jericho, 6.ix.1971, coll. O. Herling | P.f. -1-657-769, ex/on ripe fruit, plant coll. on: 8.viii.1971 ( SMNK) ; 4 ♂, 5 ♀, Jerusalem, 6.vi.2004 (Kravchenko) (geni- talia slides 3408, 3409, 3410, 3411, 3412, 3413, 3414 Gregersen, 5499 Hendriksen, 5249 Karsholt) ( TAU, ZMUC) ; 1 ♂, 5 ♀, East bank of Kenneret lake, Mevo Hama, 18.iv.2018, light (Kravchenko & Bidzilya) ( ZMKU) .

Host plant. In Israel the larvae have been recorded feeding on Prunus sp. and Pyrus sp. ( Bodenheimer 1930a: 174, 1937: 102). Bodenheimer (1930b: 235) gave a detailed description of its biology. The record of larva from Prosopis ( Halperin & Sauter 1992: 121) should most likely be referred to Anarsia acaciae .

Distribution. Central and southern Europe, North Africa, eastwards through the Middle East and Turkey to Central Asia, India (Kashmir), China (Xinjang, Shaanxi), Primorskiy krai of Russia, North Korea and Japan, Australia ( Lvovsky & Piskunov 1999: 49; Park & Ponomarenko 2007: 182; Li 2002: 238; Beljaev & Ponomarenko 2005: 2), North America, Canada (introduced) (Gregersen & Karsholt 2017:78).