Acalyptris platani Muller-Rutz 1934

Abstract

<p>55. Acalyptris platani (Müller-Rutz, 1934). (Figs 54, 55, 124, 125). Host-plants. Platanus spp. (incl. P. orientalis L. and other, introduced species of Platanus in the Crimea). Type of distribution (chorological group). Sub-Mediterranean-Mediterranean; the species occurs from Portugal, France and Italy to Slovakia, Crimea, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Iran (and possibly the western Caucasus). Material examined. CRIMEA: 7♂, 3♀, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, mining larvae on Platanus sp., fieldwork card no. 4965, 12 –26.viii.2009, leg. A. Remeikis & J. R. Stonis, genitalia slide nos RA 238♂, RA 239♂, RA 240♂, RA 241♂, RA 242♂, RA237♀, RA243♀; 2♂, 2♀, 31 km SW Feodosiya, Kurortnoe, mining larvae on Platanus sp., fieldwork card no. 5043, 28.vii.2011, leg. A.Diškus, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas, genitalia slide no. AN 500♂; 50 km SE Feodosiya, Sudak, empty leaf-mines on Platanus sp., fieldwork card no. 5043, 15.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leaf-mines on Platanus sp., fieldwork card no. 5043, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus; Simferopol, empty leaf-mines on Platanus sp., fieldwork card no. 5043, 20.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; Feodosiya, empty leaf-mines, on Platanus sp., fieldwork card no. 5043, 05.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas. Remarks. The species is very common in the Crimea: widespread and extremely abundant. For the first time recorded from the Crimea (as the easternmost record in Europe) by Stonis & Remeikis (2011).<p>