Megacraspedus balneariellus (Chrétien, 1907)

Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, Zootaxa 2367 (1), pp. 1-68 : 14

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E16762-FF91-C921-9C87-6063FD92AADD
treatment provided by	Felipe (2021-08-22 20:13:34, last updated 2023-11-09 21:07:42)
scientific name	Megacraspedus balneariellus (Chrétien, 1907)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Megacraspedus balneariellus (Chrétien, 1907) View in CoL comb. n.

Chilopselaphus balneariellus Chrétien, 1907

Berlin 30. VI –02.VII.1997; Novoiletzk 08.VI.1998; Sakmara 21.VI.1996. Genitalia slide: J. Junnilainen prep. no. 03011203. A total of 23♂♂.

Distribution. Very locally distributed from C Europe to the Ural Mountains.

Remarks. According to Kasy (1962), specimens from Eastern Europe are darker than specimens from the type locality in France, and he considered the former as a subspecies M. balneariellus spp. podolicus (Toll, 1942). This species is new to Russia.

References

Kasy, F. (1962) Uber die systematische Stellug von Chilopselaphus podolicus Toll, 1942 (Lepid., Gelechiidae) und dessen neu entdecktes Vorkommen im Neusiedler Seegebiet. Zeitschrift der Wiener Entomologischen Geselschaft, 47, 25 - 28.