Epicallima icterinella (Mann, 1867) new to Italy (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae)

Abstract

Epicallima icterinella (Mann, 1867), an interesting Oecophoridae species, present only in the Balkan Peninsula and in the islands of Cyprus and Crete, was found for the first time in Italy in Basilicata.

Mesophleps ochracella (Turati, 1926), nueva para Italia (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)

“…In recent times, our research has also been extended to the South of Italy and to the Islands with encouraging results (PINZARI, 2019b;PINZARI & PINZARI, 2019c) which showed how much the fauna and biology of Lepidoptera in southern Italy are still scarcely known and lead to a further attention.…”

“…The microlepidoptera fauna of the South of Italy and especially Basilicata are still relatively scarcely known as also shown by the recent discovery of Epicallima icterinella (Mann, 1867) (PINZARI, 2019b). Therefore, the collecting of Mesophleps ochracella (Turati, 1926) for the first time in Italy is not a great surprise.…”

“…In the context of an ongoing study on the biology of butterfly endangered species (PINZARI, 2016a(PINZARI, , 2019aPINZARI et al, 2017PINZARI et al, , 2019 and Lepidoptera fauna in Italy (PINZARI, 2016b(PINZARI, , 2019b(PINZARI, , 2020PINZARI et al, 2018;PINZARI & PINZARI, 2019a, 2019b, 2019c we focused our attention on little-known species in central Italy.…”