I reared this adult (and about 40 others) from eggs I found on a Ricinus leaf. Dr. Alex Hausmann kindly identified it for me as a newly described species of special interest because so few insects are known to feed on the Ricinus plant whose seeds are highly toxic.
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For more information on this insect's close and distant relatives, why not visit my check-list of Israeliinsects?