Amblypalpis olivierella Ragonot, 1886

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 : 33

Amblypalpis olivierella Ragonot, 1886

Amblypalpis olivierella Ragonot, 1886 —Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (6) 5 (Bull.): ccix.

Records. Bodenheimer 1930a: 174; Bodenheimer 1930b: 369; Amsel 1933: 127; Bodenheimer 1937: 102; Halperin 1986: 122, 124, 129, 131.

Material examined. 1 ♂, Mikmoret , 9 km N Netanya, 20.xii.1970, coll. D. Gerling | Ta. -0-8, ex/spinde gall, plant. col. on: 17.xii.1970 ( SMNK) ; 1 ♂, Micmoret , 20.ii.1977 (Lupo) ; 1 ♂, Holon , 26.ii.1977 (Lupo) ; 2 ♂, Netanya , 25.ix.1984, Tamarix , 20, 23.xi.1984 (Halperin) (all TAU) ; 2 ♂, Nahal Kziv , light trap, 5.xii.1998 (Pavlíček & Kravchenko) ; 1 ♂, Nahal Oren , Mt. Carmel, light trap, 9.xii.1998 (Pavlíček & Kravchenko) (all NMPC) .

Host plant. Stem galls of Tamarix sp. ( Halperin 1986: 122, 124, 129, 131). According to Bodenheimer (1930a: 174; 1930b: 369) the larvae are so heavily parasitized that moths very rarely emerge from the galls.

Distribution. Algeria, Tunisia, Israel, Saudi Arabia ( Amsel 1958: 81), Spain ( Vives Moreno 2019: 53).