Delplanqueia dilutella (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Tsvetkov, Eugene, 2020, Narrow-winged pyralids (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Pyralidae, Phycitinae) of Leningrad Province and the city of St. Petersburg, Russia, Zootaxa 4890 (3), pp. 361-374 : 364

Delplanqueia dilutella ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

( Moeberg 1925)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. 1 Ƌ, 1 ♀, Krupeli, 19.vii.1971 (Falkovitsh); 2 Ƌ, 1 ♀, W env. of Luga, 25–27.vii.2012.

REMARKS. K. Moeberg reported D. dilutella for Luga environs (28.vii.1921, leg. Fridolin) in the cited source. The species is local in Luga district where it inhabits dry open biotopes with Thymus ( Fig. 1 ).

DISTRIBUTION. Europe except for northern parts, Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, South Siberia, the south of Russian Far East ( Sinev 1986; Karsholt & Razowski 1996; Leraut 2014; Aarvik et al. 2017; Koçak & Kemal 2018; Sinev et al. 2019; Slamka, 2019).

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FIGURE 1. Habitat of Ephestia mistralella, Episcythrastis tabidella and Homoeosoma nimbella, dry sandy meadow in environs of Luga (Luga polygon), 24 July 2015.