Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier, 1789)

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 : 29-30

Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier, 1789)

Alucita cerealella Olivier, 1789 —Encycl. Méth. Dict. Ins. 4: 121.

Tinea hordei Kirby, 1815 —Introd. Ent. 1: 172.

Gelechia arctella Walker, 1864 —List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 29: 635.

Gelechia ( Sitotroga ?) coarctatella Zeller, 1877—Horae Soc. Ent. Ross. 13: 353.

Gelechia melanarthra Lower, 1900 —Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 25 (3): 416.

Epithectis palearis Meyrick, 1913 —Exotic Microlep. 1 (3–5): 65.

Nesolechia horogramma Meyrick, 1921 —Exotic Microlep. 2 (14): 425.

Syngenomictis aenictopa Meyrick, 1927 —Insects Samoa 3: 78.

Aristotelia ochrescens Meyrick, 1938 —Dt. ent. Z. Iris 52: 3.

Chelaria asemodes Meyrick, 1938 —Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 87: 513.

Records. Bodenheimer 1930a: 174; Bodenheimer 1930b: 380–382; Amsel 1933: 126; Amsel 1935c: 264; Bodenheimer 1937: 101; Kugler 1966: 85; Donahaye & Calderon 1969: 229.

Material examined. 1 ♂, Jerusalem , Palästina, 4.vi.1931 (Eisner) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Abu-Goash , Jerusalem, 21.iv.1930 (Amsel) (all SMNK) .

Host plant. In Israel the larvae were recorded as a very common pest, feeding on Triticum sp. ( Bodenheimer 1930a: 174; 1930b: 380–382; 1937: 101).

Distribution. Tropical and subtropical regions of the world ( CABI 2019).