Entomologica Romanica Vol. 26 / 2022
2022
figures are schematic sketches, usually made from free floating genitalia, of which only a few were unrolled. Finally, we compiled a second list of the previously recorded, but currently deleted taxa. All of these species are also mentioned in the main list by their genera or subfamily if the genus is deleted, but details are only given in this second list. Results In the present study we deal with a total of 317 Gelechiidae species placed in 80 genera, in two lists. The main list comprises 293 species placed in 78 genera, which are currently accepted for the Romanian fauna, including 286 named and 7 so far not identified and probably undescribed species. We examined voucher material of the great majority of them (269 species, almost 92 %), only 24 are derived from the literature. The following 30 species are the first records for the Romanian fauna, 28 of them were not mentioned before: Aproaerema cinctelloides (Nel & Varenne, 2012), A. suecicella (Wolff, 1958), A. semicostella (Staudinger, 1871), Dactylotulakinkerella(S^^^ 1876), Bryotropha patockai Elsner & Karsholt, 2003, Aristotelici decoratella (Staudinger, 1879), Psamathocrita argentella Pierce & Metcalfe, 1942, Ptocheuusa paupella (Zeller, 1847), Metzneria diffusella Englert, 1974, Monochroa tekovella Kosorín, 2020, Athrips aquila Junnilainen, 2010, Chionodes ignorantella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854), Gelechia senticetella (Staudinger, 1859), G. dujardini Huemer, 1991, Scrobipalpa acuta Povolny, 2001, S. selectella (Caradja, 1920), S. gallicella (Constant, 1885), S. monochromella (Constant, 1895), S. thymelaeae (Amsel, 1939), Ephysteris deserticolella (Staudinger, 1871), Lutilabria lutilabrella (Mann, 1857), Caryocolum amaurella (Hering, 1924), C. petryi (Hofmann, 1899), C. pullatella (Tengström, 1848), C. blandulella (Tutt, 1887), Teleiopsis laetitiae Schmid, 2011, Xenolechia aethiops (Humphreys & Westwood, 1845) and Stenolechiodes pseudogemmellus Elsner, 1996. The following two species have already been included in the lists, but without evidence that has now been obtained: Scrobipalpa nitentella (Fuchs, 1902) and Scrobipalpula tussilaginis (Stainton, 1867), thus they are also considered first records. There are 6 other new additions in the checklist. Although previously reported from Romania in the literature, they were overlooked and not included in the recently published Romanian checklist by Rákosy & Goia (2021): Apodia martinii Petry, 1911 (Gozmány 1958: 264), Monochroa conspersella (Herrich- Schäffer, 1854) (Neacșu & Draghia 1973), Ptycerata cryptoxena (Gozmány, 1952) (Bidzilya & Karsholt 2021), Scrobipalpa salicorniae (Hering, 1889) (Huemer & Karsholt 2010), Lutilabria prolata Junnilainen & Nupponen, 2010 (Junnilainen & Nupponen 2010) and Agonochaetia terrestrella (Zeller, 1872) (Huemer & Karsholt 2010). We confirm from voucher material the presence of 2 species that had earlier been considered to be uncertain: Bryotropha plantariella (Tengström, 1848) and Scrobipalpula diffluella (Frey, 1870) (Kovács & Kovács 2000: 25, 33). The identifications of Iwaruna biguttella (Duponchel, 1843) and Psamathocrita osseella (Stainton, 1860) are considered uncertain and needing confirmation, because the examined voucher material lack the abdomens and so the study of the genitalia was impossible. Further, there are 7 so far unidentified species mentioned, probably all are undescribed and still are under study: one species each of Aproaerema. Dichomeris. Apatetris. Aristotelia. Chionodes and two of Caryocolum. Our studies of a large series of Bryotropha azovica Bidzilya, 1996 collected from the Romanian Black Sea coastal zone revealed that in the literature the name B. azovica covers two different taxa. We conclude that Bryotropha azovica Bidzilya, 1996 is known only from Ukraine (type locality) and Romania. All other records of B. azovica sensu Karsholt & Rutten, 2005 from Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria and North Macedonia (Karsholt & Rutten 2005: 104; Lepiforum, accessed 12 April 2020; BOLD Systems, accessed 10 December 2020; Huemer et al. 2020: supplementary material 2, NJ tree 16) represent a different, as yet unnamed, species. To correct this taxonomic problem a paper is in preparation by O. Karsholt, O. Bidzilya, P. Huemer, Z. Kovács and S. Kovács. The previously unknown females of Aproaerema incognitana (Gozmány, 1957) and A. semicostella (Staudinger, 1871) were identified in the studied material and are described hereunder. The current level of knowledge does not allow us to establish the correct taxonomic status of 5 taxa treated here: Monochroa sepicolella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854), Scrobipalpa monochromella (Constant, 1895), Caryocolum pullatella (Tengström, 1848), Ephysteris diminutella (Zeller, 1847) and Agonochaetia terrestrella (Zeller, 1872). Details are given in their respective annotations. The material examined also provided data for 78 first records for the regions of Romania: 18 species in Banat, 2 in Crișana, 19 in Dobrogea, 15 in Muntenia, 8 in Oltenia and 16 in Transylvania. Rákosy & Goia (2021) omitted records of 6 species: 3 in Dobrogea and 1 species each in Moldova, Muntenia and Oltenia. These are now included. A total of 20 records for different regions of the country were deleted because their voucher material was found to be misidentified or incorrect literature data were given: 4 species in Banat, 6 in Crișana, 4 in Dobrogea, 3 in Moldova and 3 in Transylvania. This results in a total of 104 additions and corrections to 3