Phycitodes saxicola ( Vaughan, 1870 )

Tsvetkov, Eugene, 2020, Narrow-winged pyralids (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Pyralidae, Phycitinae) of Leningrad Province and the city of St. Petersburg, Russia, Zootaxa 4890 (3), pp. 361-374 : 371

Phycitodes saxicola ( Vaughan, 1870) **

MATERIAL EXAMINED. 1 ♀, Kellomyaki, 15.viii.1957 (Kozhanchikov); 1 Ƌ, 1 ♀, Luga, 10.vii.1971 (Falkovitsh); 1 ♀, Krupeli, 19.vii.1971 (Falkovitsh); 3 Ƌ, 4 ♀, W env. of Luga, 25–30.vii.2012, 21–23.vii.2015; 1 Ƌ, 1 ♀, Nov. Devyatkino, 28.vii.2015.

REMARKS. This species is very local and not often. It inhabits different meadows preferring dry meadows. In the Karelian Isthmus I found it near Nov. Devyatkino and it is the northernmost record in European part of Russia. P. saxicola is known by a record in the south of Pskov Province ( Valersky et al. 2001).

DISTRIBUTION. The Palaearctic (temperate zone and southern areas) ( Roesler 1965, 1973; Sinev 1986; Karsholt & Razowski 1996; Leraut 2014; Sinev et al. 2019).