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B idzilya & T rusch : Gelechidae in the collection of the SMNK 141 Palaearctic Gnorimoschemini were based fully or in part on material collected by H. A msel and W. G laser . Permanent slides of dissected genitalia of Gele- chiidae are arranged in alphabetical order by the authors’ names. All slides are databased in re- gularly updated Excel data-sheets, which greatly facilitates the search for particular slides. The collection of Gelechiidae has been exten- sively studied and serves as basis for modern taxonomic revisions and for regional lists of Pala- earctic Gelechiidae ( B idzilya & M ey 2018, B idzilya & N upponen 2018, H uemer & K arsholt 2018, B id - zilya et al. 2019, B idzilya & K arsholt 2018, 2019). As a result, the number of identified species in- cluding types of newly described species in the collection of SMNK is continuously increasing. This illustrates the outstanding scientific value of the collection. The Gelechiidae collection of the SMNK comprises representative material – rich in both specimens and species – from regions which are now hardly accessible for collecting activities due to their permanently unstable poli- tical situation. This is another aspect which stres- ses the high scientific value of the collection of Gelechiidae of the SMNK and which makes this collection a valuable basis for further contribu- tions to the systematics of Gelechiidae by future generations of taxonomists. Acknowledgement We would like to thank Dr. A lbrecht M anegold and A xel S teiner for revising the language of the manuscript and Dr. K laus S attler (London), B ettina von B riskorn and Dr. V olker L ohrmann (Bremen) for providing valuable information. References A msel , H.G. (1933): Die Lepidopteren Palästinas. Eine zoogeographisch-ökologisch-faunistische Studie. – Zoogeographica 2 (1): 1-146. A msel , H.G. (1935a): Neue palästinensische Lepidop­ teren. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 20 (2): 271-319, pls. 9-18. A msel , H.G. (1935b): Zur Kenntnis der Microlepidopte- renfauna des südlichen Toten-Meer-Gebietes, nebst Beschreibung neuer palästinensischer Macro-und Microlepidoptera. – Veröffentlichungen aus dem Figure 7. Species of the genus Anarsia with long series of type-speci- mens of A. geminella A msel , 1967 . Figure 6. Part of the type-series of Scrobipalpa halophi- la P ovoln ý , 1973. The species was described based on a long series of specimens collected by W olfgang and M argit G laser in Turkey.