Hodebertia testalis (Fabricius, 1794)

Bidzilya, Oleksiy V. & Budashkin, Yuri I., 2017, New records of Lepidoptera from Ukraine and description of a new species of Caloptilia Huebner, 1825 (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae) from the mountains of Crimea, Nota Lepidopterologica 40 (2), pp. 5-21 : 13

Hodebertia testalis (Fabricius, 1794)

Material.

1 ♂, 1 ♀, Crimea, Karadag, biostancija, at light, 20.ix, 6.x.2016, leg. Yu. Budashkin.

Distribution.

Native to subtropics and tropics, probably resident in the Mediterranean area: Spain (with Canary Islands), Portugal (with Madeira), North Africa, Malta, France, Italy (with Sicily), Croatia, Greece, Asia Minor, Middle East. The records from Crimea as well as the single records from the British Isles and Switzerland belong most likely to migrants ( Slamka 2013). New for Ukraine.