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
scientific name	Megacraspedus balneariellus (Chrétien, 1907)
status	comb. n.

Treatment

Megacraspedus balneariellus (Chrétien, 1907) 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.