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

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scientific name	Helcystogramma lamprostoma (Zeller, 1847)
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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.