1. Lebendfotos

1.1. Falter

2. Biologie

2.1. Nahrung der Raupe

Noch unbekannt!

3. Weitere Informationen

3.1. Etymologie (Namenserklärung)

Povolný & Bradley (1964: 557): “We named this specied after our colleague Mr. Arthur Smith, to whom we are indebted for many entomological illustrations.”

3.2. Typenmaterial

Povolný & Bradley (1964: 557): “Holotype ♂, Algeria, El Kantara, 7. v. 1903 (Walsingham). Genitalia slide 10518.

Allotype ♀, same locality as holotype, dated 5. v. 1903 (Walsingham). Genitalia slide 10549.

Paratypes: same data as holotype, 2 ♂ 2 ♀; type locality, various dates from 4–11. v. 1903, 6 ♂ 3 ♀ (Walsingham); Biskra, 25. v. 1894 (Eaton), 2 ♀.”

3.3. Faunistik

Huemer & Karsholt (2010) bemerken, dass es hier viele Fehlbestimmungen gab, die auch in der Literatur ihren Niederschlag gefunden haben: "Locally distributed in Spain and the Ukraine (A. Bidzilya, pers. com.). Also recorded from North Africa, Turkey, the Near East (Syria, Lebanon), Mongolia (Povolný, 2002a: 70) and China (Bidzilya & Li, 2010). A record from Germany (Thüringen) (Steuer, 2002) is based on misidentification (Gerstberger, 2003: 138). Published records from France, Hungary (Szabòky et al. 2006: 71) and Austria are incorrect (see Remarks)."

(Autor: Erwin Rennwald)

3.4. Literatur

• Huemer, P. & O. Karsholt (2010): Gelechiidae II (Gelechiinae: Gnorimoschemini). — In: Huemer, P., Karsholt, O. & M. Nuss (2010): Microlepidoptera of Europe 6: 1-586. Stenstrup (Apollo Books).
• Erstbeschreibung: Povolný, D. & J. D. Bradley (1964): Two new species of Scrobipalpa Janse (Lep., Gelechiidae) from Algeria. — Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 13 7: 553-557.