Mirificarma rhodoptera (Mann, 1866)

Gelechia rhodoptera Mann, 1866 —Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien 16: 353, pl. 1, fig. 10.

Records. Halperin & Sauter 1992: 126, 134.

Host plant. In Israel the larvae have been recorded living in green twigs of Spartium junceum L. (Halperin & Sauter 1992: 134).

Distribution. Romania, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon (Karsholt & Huemer 1999: 126), Israel.

Remarks. Without studying the material of M. rhodoptera from Israel we cannot exclude that this record belongs to closely related M. minimella Karsholt & Huemer, 2001 known from Greece.