Palumbina guerinii (Stainton, 1858)

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 : 31-32

Palumbina guerinii (Stainton, 1858)

Stathmopoda (?) guerinii Stainton, 1858 —Ent. Annual: 152.

Palumbina terebintella Rondani, 1876 —Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 8: 23.

Tinea pistaciae Anagnostopoulos, 1935 —The Pistachio Nut Tree in Greece: 50, figs 14–20.

Records. Halperin 1986: 126. 28, 130, 131.

Material examined. 4 ♂, 2 ♀, Em Karem , 10.ix.1975, Pistacia palaestinensis , 26.ix, 1.x.1975 (Halperin) ; 1 ♀, Kfar Hassidin , 17.x.1974, Pistacia atlantica , 18.xi.1974 (Halperin) (all TAU) ; 2 ♂, 2 ♀, Tel-Aviv, Botanical garden. 14, 16.iv.2018, light (Bidzilya & Kravchenko) ( ZMKU) .

Host plant. In Israel larvae feed on Pistacia terebinthus ssp. palaestina (Boiss.) Engl. and P. atlantica Desf. ( Halperin 1986: 126, 128, 130, 131). They were also observed in galls of aphids ( Hemiptera : Eriosomatidae , Fordinae ) on Pistacia spp. and in galls of Tetraneura caerulescens (Passerini, 1856) ( Hemiptera : Aphididae ) on Ulmus sp. ( Halperin & Sauter 1992: 134).

Distribution. South Europe ( Karsholt & Riedl 1996: 118), Morocco, Lebanon, Cyprus, Turkey ( Sattler 1982: 27), Israel, Kenya ( Miller et al. 2014: 140).