Mesophleps silacella (Hübner, 1796)

Tinea silacella Hübner, 1796 —Samml. eur. Schmett. [8]: 37, pl. 17, fig. 117.

Tinea pyropella Hübner, 1793 —Vögel und Schmett.: fig. 95.

Mesophleps pudicellus var. apicellus Caradja, 1920 —Dt. ent. Z. Iris 34 (1/2): 113.

Mesophleps silacellus calaritanus Amsel, 1939 —Mem. Soc. ent. ital. 17 (1938): 73.

Records. Amsel 1933: 126; Amsel 1935c: 264; (partim as corsicella); Bodenheimer 1937: 101.

Material examined. 1 ♂, Ramallah, Jerusalem. 21.iv.1930 (Amsel) ; 2 ♀, Kirjat Anawim, Jerusalem, 22.iv.1930 (Amsel) (SMNK) ; 2 ♂, Tel Aviv vic., Cesaria, Dunes, 14.iv.2018, day collecting (Bidzilya) (TAU, ZMKU) .

Distribution. Europe eastwards to Middle Volga region, Turkey, Algeria, Turkmenistan (Ivinskis & Piskunovas 1994: 38; Ponomarenko 2008: 103; Li & Sattler 2012: 34), Israel.