Entomologica Romanica Vol. 26 / 2022

2022

the regional distribution of the Romanian Gelechiidae fauna. Among the 24 species derived from the literature there are only 3 where the cited publications leave no doubt about their identity, the original descriptions of Mirificarma rhodoptera (Mann, 1866) and Lutilabria prolata Junnilainen & Nupponen, 2010 were based on Romanian type material (Mann 1866: 353; Junnilainen & Nupponen 2010: 28), while Pragmatodes parvulata (Gozmány, 1953) was confirmed by DNA barcoding (Huemer et al. 2020, supplementary material 2, NJ tree 9). The following 15 species seem to have been reliably identified, but we did not find voucher material for confirmation: Aproaerema patruelia (Mann, 1857), Neofaculta ericetella (Geyer, 1832), Dichomeris marginella (Fabricius, 1781), Brachmia procursella Rebel, 1903, Monochroa palustrellus (Douglas, 1850), Mirificarma interrupta (Curtis, 1827), M. mulinella (Zeller, 1839), Chionodes continuella (Zeller, 1839), Gelechia asinella (Hübner, 1796), G. basipunctella Herrich-Schäffer, 1854, G. rhomb elliformis Staudinger, 1871, Scrobipalpa murinella (Duponchel, 1843), Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873), Teleiodes saltuum (Zeller, 1878) and Pseudotelphusa tessella (Linnaeus, 1758). All of these must be confirmed in due course by voucher material. The presence of 5 species is doubtful and they certainly are in need of confirmation: Aristotelia brizella (Treitschke, 1833), Ptoheuusa inopella (Zeller, 1839), Apodia martinii Petry, 1911, Aroga aristotelis (Milliére, 1876) and Caryocolum klosi (Rebel, 1917). There remains an unnamed Aproaerema sp. that needs further study. The following genus and 11 species-level taxa were described exclusively or partly from Romanian type material: Carpatolechia Căpușe, 1964; Aproaerema montanata (Gozmány, 1957); A. aureliana Căpușe, 1964, currently a junior synonym of A. anthyllidella (Hübner, 1813); Anarsia innoxiella Gregersen & Karsholt, 2017; Ptycerata pudicellus (Mann, 1861); Megacraspedus devorator Huemer & Karsholt, 2018; Megacraspedus similellus Huemer & Karsholt, 2018; Mirificarma rhodoptera (Mann, 1866); Filatima transsilvanella Kovács & Kovács, 2002; Lutilabria prolata Junnilainen & Nupponen, 2010; Carpatolechia dumitrescui Căpușe, 1964, currently a junior synonym of C. decorella (Haworth, 1812) and Pseudotelphusa istrella (Mann, 1866) (Mann 1861, 1866; Gozmány 1957; Căpușe 1964; Kovács & Kovács 2002a; Junnilainen & Nupponen 2010; Gregersen & Karsholt 2017; Huemer & Karsholt 2018). Scrobipalpa caliacrae (Caradja, 1932) was treated as endemic to Romania by Rákosy (1998: 259), despite being described and mentioned only from Bulgaria (Balchik) and never mentioned from modem Romanian sites, but included in the checklist of the Romanian Microlepidoptera by Popescu-Gorj (1984: 128). Currently it is considered to be a junior synonym of the widespread S. salicorniae (Hering, 1889) (Huemer & Karsholt 2010: 181). Filatima transsilvanella Kovács & Kovács, 2002 was also considered endemic to the Carpathians by Rákosy (2013: 70, as Filatina\ including it in a list of four ‘subspecifically differentiated isolates’ although no subspecies was ever described and Rákosy does not give a subspecific name. The species seems to be widely distributed, subsequently being recorded from the southern Ural Mountains (Junnilainen et al. 2010: 38). Currently none of the named Romanian Gelechiidae species listed here is considered by us to be endemic. The following 3 invasive species were identified: Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier, 1789), Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873) and Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917). A total of 38 species from Romania have been barcoded, data of 24 of them were already published by Huemer & Karsholt (2018) and Huemer et al. (2020), one released data was obtained from the BOLD Systems, the remaining 13 species were successfully sequenced during this study. The genera Pectinophora Busck, 1917 and Ochrodia Povolny, 1966 and 24 species mentioned from Romania previously, but currently deleted from the checklist, are commented on in the second list. 18 of them were misidentifications or there were well-founded arguments that their records are based on incorrect identifications: Dichomeris acuminatus (Staudinger, 1876), Acompsia minorella Rebel, 1899, Helcystogramma albinervis (Gerasimov, 1929), Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders, 1844), Thiotricha coleella (Constant, 1885), Bryotropha plebejella (Zeller, 1847), B. umbrosella (Zeller, 1839), Isophrictis lineatellus (Zeller, 1850), Oxypteryx nigromaculella (Milliére, 1872), O. libertinella (Zeller, 1872), O. nigritella (Zeller, 1847), Sophronia chilonella (Treitschke, 1833), Mirificarma flavella (Duponchel, 1844), Chionodes nubilella (Zetterstedt, 1839), Scrobipalpa feralella (Zeller, 1872), S. suaedella (Richard­son, 1893), Ochrodia subdiminutella (Stainton, 1867) and Sattleria pyrenaica (Petry, 1904). Of the remaining 6 species recent studies revealed that they were misidentifications of species that had not previously been recorded from Romania. The misidentifications with the correct identifications are: Aproaerema larseniella (Gozmány, 1957) with Aproaerema cinctelloides (Nel & Varenne, 2012), Ptycerata furfurella (Staudinger, 1871) with P cryptoxena (Gozmány, 1952), Chionodes nebulosella (Heinemann, 1870) with a probably undescribed Chionodes species, Scrobipalpa stângei (Hering, 1889) and S. salinella (Zeller, 1847) with S. salicorniae (Hering, 1889) and S. costella (Humphreys & Westwood, 1845) with S. hyoscyamella (Stainton, 1869). 4

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