''Scrobipalpa crepera'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

in the family

Gelechiidae The Gelechiidae are a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths. They are the namesake family of the huge and little-studied superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy has been subject to considerable d ...

. It was described by Mark I. Falkovitsh and Oleksiy V. Bidzilya in 2006. It is found in south-eastern

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. The

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is about . The larvae feed on ''

Halostachys caspica ''Halostachys'' is a genus of flowering plants in the plant family Amaranthaceae, containing a single species, ''Halostachys caspica''. The plants are small to medium halophytic shrubs with apparently jointed fleshy stems and scale-like leaves. T ...

''.ФАЛЪКОВИЧ, М. И. & А. БИДЗИЛЯ (2006): Виїмчастокрилі молі триби Gnorimoschemini (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) туранської фауни, які живуть на лободових (Chenopodiaceae), з описами нових видів he Turanian gelechiid moths of the tribe Gnorimoschemini (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) living on plants of the family Chenopodiaceae, with descriptions of new speciesbr>Full article
— ПРАЦІ ЗООЛОГІЧНОГО МУЗЕЮ 4: 62-104. Kyiv ''Proceedings of the Zoological Museum''

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Scrobipalpa Moths described in 2006 {{Scrobipalpa-stub