Helcystogramma lamprostoma (Zeller, 1847)

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 : 26

Helcystogramma lamprostoma (Zeller, 1847)

Gelechia lamprostoma Zeller, 1847 —Isis von Oken 1847 (11): 851.

Anacampsis scutata Meyrick, 1894 —Trans. ent. Soc. 1894 (1): 14.

Records. Bodenheimer 1930a: 174; Amsel 1935b: 210; Bodenheimer 1937: 101; Halperin & Sauter 1992: 121.

Material examined. 1 ♂, Huliot , 27.x.1968 (Shoham) ; 1 ♀, same data but 22.vi.1968 ; 1 ♀, Jerusalem, 6.vi.2004 (Kravchenko) (all TAU) ; 1 ♀, Nahal Oren, Mt. Carmel , light trap 29.x.1998 (Pavlíček & Kravchenko) ; 1 ♀, ditto but 30.x.1997 ; 1 ♀, ditto but 19.vi.1998 ; 1 ♂, ditto but 21.v.1998 (all NMPC).

Host plant. In Israel the larvae have been recorded feeding on Prosopis sp. ( Halperin & Sauter 1992: 121).

Distribution. Spain (with Canary Islands), Portugal, France, Malta, Italy (Sicilia and Sardinia), North Africa, Turkey, Middle East, India, Indonesia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Gambia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa ( Karsholt & Riedl 1996: 120; Ponomarenko 2009: 283; De Prins & De Prins 2018).

Remarks. Gelechia lamprostoma was described from a single male from Sicily. Later it was moved to the genus Anacampsis by Wocke (1871), and the species was placed in the genus Onebala Walker, 1864 ( Meyrick 1925: 138) . Although Hodges (1986) had transferred the closely related Gelechia zulu Walsingham, 1881 to Helcystogramma, Old World lepidopterists (e.g. Karsholt & Riedl 1996: 120; Ponomarenko 2009: 283) listed lamprostoma in Dichomeris Hübner, 1818 . The genitalia of O. lamrostoma match the genus Helcystogramma Zeller, 1877 and the species was placed in the latter genus in recent papers ( Agassiz & Bidzilya 2016; Karsholt & Huemer 2017), but without any accompanying remarks.