Scrobipalpa salinella (Zeller, 1847)

BIDZILYA, OLEKSIY, HUEMER, PETER & ŠUMPICH, JAN, 2022, Taxonomy and faunistics of the genus Scrobipalpa Janse, 1951 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) in southern Siberia, Zootaxa 5218 (1), pp. 1-76 : 38

Scrobipalpa salinella (Zeller, 1847)

Gelechia salinella Zeller 1847: 853 .

Lita zernyella Rebel, 1918: 87 .

Gnorimoschema corsicanum Gregor & Povolný, 1954 ; 94.

Gnorimoschema ignotum Gregor & Povolný, 1954: 94 .

Scrobipalpa trebujenae Povolný, 1977: 146 .

Material examined. 1 ♂, Russia, S-Buryatia, 51°28’N 106°33’E, 600 m, Gusinoozersk vill., 5 km NNE lake Solyonoe, salt marsh/steppe, 26.vi.2002 (Nupponen) (gen. slide 131/17, OB) (Barcode TLMF Lep 28352 [failed]) ; 1 ♂, same data as for preceding (gen. slide 163/16, OB) (Barcode TLMF Lep 28338 [failed]) ; 4 ♂, 6 ♀, same data as for preceding (gen. slide 164/16, OB) (all NUPP) .

Molecular data. S. salinella shares BIN [BOLD:AAF1193 (n=25, of which 21 public) with S. salicorniae (Hering, 1889) . Moreover, S. salinella is most probably a complex of several species, some of them hitherto undescribed (cf. Fig. 10 ). The minimum distance of S. salinella (n=9) to the nearest neighbour, S. salicorniae (n=12), is 1.27%. The intraspecific average distance of S. salinella is 0.35% ( Fig. 10 ).

Distribution. South Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Russia: South of European part, southern Ural, Novosibirsk region, Altaiskiy kraі, Buryatia (new record); Kazakhstan, Mongolia ( Povolný 1996: 36, 2002: 67; Bidzilya 2005:15; Ponomarenko 2008: 97; Junnilainen et al. 2010: 50; Huemer & Karsholt 2010: 178).

Figures

FIGURE 10. Neighbour-joining tree of Scrobipalpa ochronerva sp. nov. and the closest species, S. salicorniae (Hering, 1889) and hitherto unsolved species complex of S. salinella group, in BOLD.