Scrobipalpa aptatella (Walker, 1864)

Gelechia aptatella Walker, 1864 —List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 29: 636.

Gelechia heliopa Lower, 1900 —Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 25 (3): 417.

Records. Bodenheimer 1930a: 174 ( heliopa); Bodenheimer 1930b: 314 ( heliopa); Amsel 1933: 125 ( heliopa); Amsel 1935c: 263 ( heliopa); Bodenheimer 1937: 101 ( heliopa); Bytinski-Salz 1966: 34 ( heliopa).

Host plant. In Israel larvae feed in stem galls on Nicotiana tabacum L. (Bodenheimer 1930a: 174; 1930b: 314–315).

Distribution. East Australia. Introduced into Oriental and Afrotropical regions. Records from Europe (France, Italy, former Yugoslavia) are unconfirmed (Huemer & Karsholt 2010: 59).

Remarks. We did not examine material of this species, but accept it on the basis of the illustrations and text by Bodenheimer (1930b: 314), based on galls with larvae found at Tel Josef, Dagania.