Dichomeris bodenheimeri ( Rebel, 1926 )

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 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4677.1.1
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scientific name	Dichomeris bodenheimeri ( Rebel, 1926 )
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Dichomeris bodenheimeri ( Rebel, 1926) View in CoL

Rhinosia bodenheimeri Rebel, 1926 —Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 74/75 (s.b.): (203).

Records. Amsel 1933: 126; Amsel 1935b: 210; Amsel 1935c: 264; Bodenheimer 1937: 101.

Material examined. 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 1 ex, Südende d. Toten Meers , 15-27.iii.1933 ( Amsel) ; 2 ♂, Jordanbrucke, Jericho , 10.iv.1930 (all SMNK) ; 1 ♂, Sinai, Wadi Hibran , 11.iv.1973 ( Freidberg) ( TAU) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Negev, Nahal ( Wadi ) Zin , black light, 8.x.1999 ( Pavlíček) ( NMPC) .

Host plant. In Israel the larvae were recorded feeding on Prosopis farcta (Banks & Sol.) J. F. Macbr. , ( Rebel 1926: 204) and Ononis sp. ( Bodenheimer 1937: 101), both Fabaceae .

Distribution. Israel, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Yemen, Kenya ( Amsel 1956: 61; Amsel 1961: 59; Agassiz & Bidzilya 2016: 127).

Remarks. Rhinosia bodenheimeri was described from a male and a female bred (in May) from larvae found in December 1926, feeding from cases on Prosopis stephaniana (M. Bieb.) Kunth. ex Spreng. The type locality is given as “ Palästina ” without exact location.