Acalyptris platani Muller-Rutz 1934

Abstract

55. <i>Acalyptris platani</i> (Müller-Rutz, 1934) <p>(Figs 54, 55, 124, 125)</p> <p> <b>Host-plants.</b> <i>Platanus</i> spp. (incl. <i>P. orientalis</i> L. and other, introduced species of <i>Platanus</i> in the Crimea).</p> <p> <b>Type of distribution</b> (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).</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> CRIMEA: 7♂, 3♀, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, mining larvae on <i>Platanus</i> 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 <i>Platanus</i> 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 <i>Platanus</i> sp., fieldwork card no. 5043, 15.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leaf-mines on <i>Platanus</i> sp., fieldwork card no. 5043, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus; Simferopol, empty leaf-mines on <i>Platanus</i> sp., fieldwork card no. 5043, 20.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; Feodosiya, empty leaf-mines, on <i>Platanus</i> sp., fieldwork card no. 5043, 05.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> 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>Published as part of <i>Navickaitė, Asta, Diškus, Arūnas & Stonis, Jonas R., 2014, An updated checklist of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of the Crimea, Sub-Mediterranean SE Europe, pp. 151-202 in Zootaxa 3847 (2)</i> on page 168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.2.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/251666">http://zenodo.org/record/251666</a&gt