Hodebertia testalis (Fabricius, 1794)

Kravchenko, Vasiliy D., Poltavsky, Alexander, Segerer, Andreas, Speidel, Wolfgang & Müller, Günter C., 2020, An annotated checklist of the Crambidae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) of Israel, with remarks on their distribution and phenology, Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (1), pp. 85-129 : 119

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scientific name	Hodebertia testalis (Fabricius, 1794)
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134. Hodebertia testalis (Fabricius, 1794) *

Records: Amsel (1933); Palmoni (1969); collection of Z. Shoham. New to Israel.

General distribution: Asiatropical. Widespread in Africa, South Europe, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Indonesia and Australia. Introduced to North America ( Hayden & Minno 2016).

Distribution in Israel: All over Mediterranean part.

Period of flight in Israel: March and September–October.

Host plants: Mammillaria heyderi ( Cactaceae ), Caralluma europaea ssp. marocana , Asclepias curassavica , Calotropis gigantea , C. procera , Gomphocarpus sp. , Leptadenia madagascariensis , Pergularia daemia , Stapelia sp. ( Apocynaceae ), Citrus sp. ( Rutaceae ), Hibiscus sp. , Sida rhombifolia ( Malvaceae ).