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

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.

In Italy two species are present: E. formosella, quoted generically in the North, in the South, in Sardinia and in Sicily (BALDIZZONE et al., 1995) and also recorded in Sila in Calabria (LEONETTI et al., 2018); E. bruandella in Alto Adige (South Tyrol), Piemonte and Emilia Romagna (TOKAR et al., 2005;BALDIZZONE et al., 2013).
In recent times, research activity has also been extended to the South of Italy and to the Islands with results (PINZARI & PINZARI, 2019) which lead to a further attention. This paper illustrates a first result of the survey campaign carried out in Basilicata in July 2019: the finding of Epicallima icterinella (Mann, 1867).

Materials and methods
Collecting site: The survey on Lepidoptera fauna in South of Italy was carried out on 8-14 July 2019 at Marina di Pisticci (MT) both on the coastal dune and in the cultivated areas in the surrounding of Masseria Macchia Relais San Pio & Marina. Moths were light-trapped by Mixed Light 160 W lamp mounted in fixed sites with electricity available.
Species identification: The moth species was identified by external habitus using the taxonomic characters reported by PARENTI (2000) and TOKAR et al. (2005).
Notes: The specimen is a male with a fresh appearance ( fig. 1). It was attracted by lux at 10 P. M. within an area mainly cultivated with citrus groves some kilometres away from the coastal dune.
Biology: Larvae probably feed under the bark of old trees from summer to spring of the following year, with hibernation (SPULER, 1910;TOKAR et al., 2005;LVOVSKY et al., 2016). Adults are on the wing from mid-May until August.

Remarks
The habitus of E. icterinella allows a certain distinction with respect to E. formosella and E. bruandella (TOKAR et al., 2005), both present in Italy. Comparing icterinella with other European species the species determination is based on the following features: E. mercedella has a very similar wing pattern, but the wing drawing is margined by white colour, and also the head and prothorax are white; on the contrary, in icterinella the head and protorax are brown; E. gerasimovi has a similar wing pattern but different at the basal area on upper surface of the forewings (LVOVSKY, 1984); E. mikkolai has a wing pattern substantially different from E. icterinella (VIVES MORENO, 2003).

Conclusion
The collecting site of E. icterinella represents the westernmost finding of the species. The freshness of the specimen let us think that it emerged locally and not came from Greece or the east-Mediterranean islands but we cannot exclude this possibility. The microlepidoptera fauna of the South of Italy and especially Basilicata are still relatively little known, except for some sites, mainly in the mountains, where research has also been focused in the past, especially on macrolepidoptera. More recent research conducted by Scalercio