during a survey on pistachio, pistacia vera l., pests in isfahan, iran, in 2015, some lepidopteran larvae living and feeding inside galls of the wrinkling pistachio aphid, forda hirsuta mordv., were observed. after laboratory rearing of these larvae, the moths were identified as altenia mersinella (staudinger, 1879) (lep.: gelechiidae) by the third author. this species has previously been repor...
