Mesophleps corsicella Herrich-Schäffer, 1856

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 : 8-9

Mesophleps corsicella Herrich-Schäffer, 1856

Mesophleps corsicella Herrich-Schäffer, 1856 —Neue Schmett. (1): 7.

Mesophleps lala Agenjo, 1960 —Verh. XI. int. Kongr. Ent. Wien 1: 150.

Records. Amsel 1933: 126; Amsel 1935c: 264; Bodenheimer 1937: 101; Halperin & Sauter 1992: 134.

Material examined. 2 ♀, Kirjat Anawim , Jerusalem, 22.iv. ????, 30.v.1930 (Amsel) ( SMNK) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Tel-Aviv, Botanical garden, 14.iv.2018 (Bidzilya & Kravchenko) ( ZMKU) ; 1 ♂, 28 exx, Jerusalem, 6.vi.2004 (Kravchenko) (all TAU, ZMUC) ; 1 ♂, Nahal Oren, Mt. Carmel , light trap 17.v.1997 (Pavlíček & Kravchenko) ; 1 ♀, ditto but 28.iii.1998 (gen. prep. 19647, J. Šumpich) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, ditto but 23.iv.1998 ; 1 ♀, ditto but 21.viii.1998 ; 1 ♂, ditto but 5.vii.1999 (all NMPC) .

Host plant. In Israel the larvae have been recorded feeding in fruits of Cistus creticus L. ( Halperin & Sauter 1992: 134).

Distribution. Spain (including Balearic Islands), Portugal, France (including Corsica), Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Greece, Morocco, Lebanon ( Karsholt & Riedl 1996: 120; Li & Sattler 2012: 35), Israel.