Aproaerema polychromella ( Rebel, 1902 )

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 : 16

Aproaerema polychromella ( Rebel, 1902)

Anacampsis polychromella Rebel, 1902 —Dt. ent. Z. Iris 15: 109.

Anacampsis faceta Meyrick, 1914 —Ann. Transv. Mus. 4 (4): 192.

Anacampsis argyrolobiella Caradja, 1920 —Dt. ent. Z. Iris 34 (1/2): 10.

Anacampsis polychromella var. rebeliella Caradja, 1920 —Dt. ent. Z. Iris 34 (1/2): 109.

Records. Bodenheimer 1930a: 174; Amsel 1933: 125, 126; Amsel 1935b: 210; Amsel 1935c: 264; Bodenheimer 1937: 101.

Material examined. 2 ex, Tel-Aviv (Dune), 17.ix, 21.x.1930 (Einsler); 2 ex., Südende d. Toten Meers, 15- 27.iii.1933 ( SMNK); 6 ♂, 1 ♀, Hulioth , 27.iii.1968 (Shoham) ; 13 ex., Hazeva , Field School, Hazeva, 16.iii, 20,16. iv, 4,9,11,18. v.1998 (Ashkenazi) Malaise Trap ; 1 ♀, Nahal Hidron , 25km W Arava Hwy (90) 9.iii.1988 (Ashkenasi); 1 ex, same data but 5 km W, 12.iii.1998; 2 ex, Shezaf N.R., Nahal Shahaq, 28.iv, 1.vi.1999 (Yarom) Malaise Trap (all TAU) ; 11 exx, Jericho , Kalia, v.2004 (Kravchenko) ; 1 ♀ slopes by Yflach , 31.v.2004 (Kravchenko); 2 exx, Je- rusalem, 6.vi.2004 (Kravchenko) (all TAU, ZMUC) ; 9 ♂, Nahal Oren , Mt. Carmel, light trap 17.v.1997 (Pavlíček & Kravchenko) ; 1 ♂, ditto but 21.v.1998 (all NMPC) .

Distribution. Spain (with Canary Islands), Portugal (with Madeira), Gibraltar, Italy (with Sicily), Austria, Malta, Croatia, Macedonia, Ukraine, Greece, Crete, Cyprus, Middle East, Egypt, Sudan, Arabia, Turkey, Iraq, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, India, Yemen, Kuwait, Cameroon, Sudan, Namibia, South Africa. Recorded as a migrant to Denmark, England and Czech Republic ( Amsel 1961; Ivinskis & Piskunovas 1994: 40; Karsholt & Riedl 1996: 119; Vávra et al. 2008: 89; Falkovitsh & Bidzilya 2009: 82; Bidzilya & Budashkin 2017: 16; De Prins & De Prins 2018).