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B idzilya & T rusch : Gelechidae in the collection of the SMNK 139 teresting and scientifically important specimens from Crete and other Greek islands. There is also some material from Greece, the Czech Republic (Bohemia) and Hungary. The identification of many species from taxonomically difficult groups or cryptic species has been confirmed by the study of the genitalia. Some specimens of Mo- nochroa , Ivanauskiella , Ptocheuusa, and other genera of Anomologini from Greece are currently under study, and we expect to find additional new species among them. One can conclude that the SMNK holds one of the richest collections of Gelechiidae from Af- ghanistan, Iran and the Middle East (Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia). The faunas of Spain (in- cluding Canary Islands) and the Austrian Alps are also well represented. Quite rich material from Crete, Turkey and North Africa (Tunisia) is available for further scientific studies. However, only few and random specimens are available from Eastern Europe, Russia and China. Gele- chiidae from South Asia are represented by com- paratively rich material from Indonesia (Sumatra) collected by R.-U. R oesler & P. V. K üppers , and E. D iehl . The preliminary study of these specimens led to the identification of several as yet unde- scribed species of Anarsia , Hypatima and other related genera of Chelariini as well as of species of Gelechiini (Fig. 3). Neotropical Gelechiidae are represented by six species of Gnorimoschemini from Ecuador, Colombia, the Dominican Re- public, and Costa Rica (Fig. 4). These are Tuta absoluta ( M eyrick , 1917) , Eurysacca media P o - volný , 1986 , Keiferia colombiana P ovolný , 1975 (paratypes), Keiferia lycopersicella ( W alsingham , 1897) , Tecia solanivora ( P ovolný , 1973) (type se- ries) and Tecia venosa ( B utler , 1883) (holotype of Holcocera baccharisella B rethés , 1917 ). Currently the SMNK collection of Gelechiidae comprises approximately 35,000 specimens of more than 800 species in 91 drawers (Fig. 5). The type material includes 125 primary types (holo- types and lectotypes) and 105 paratypes. Most of them are types of Gnorimoschemini described by D alibor P ovolný based on material loaned from A msel ’ s , G laser ’ s and B urmann ’ s collec- tions (Fig. 6). These specimens were returned to SMNK from the Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic in 2011. Furthermore, the SMNK holds several paratypes of Gnorimoschemini described by P ovolný from material collected by F. K asy & E. Figure 2. Scrobipalpa camphorosmella N el , 1999 from the collec- tion of R einhard S ut - ter , which is part of the SMNK collection (Inv.- No. E-Lep. 205). Figure 3. Chelariini from Sumatra are still awaiting study.