Acalyptris platani (Müller-Rutz, 1934), Muller-Rutz, 1934

Navickaitė, Asta, Diškus, Arūnas & Stonis, Jonas R., 2014, An updated checklist of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of the Crimea, Sub-Mediterranean SE Europe, Zootaxa 3847 (2), pp. 151-202 : 168

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).

Figures

FIGURES 48 – 55. Leaf-mines of the Stigmella and Acalyptris species occurring in the Crimea. 48, S. carpinella on Carpinus betulus; 49, S. incognitella on Malus domestica; 50, 51, S. lemniscella on Ulmus sp.; 52, S. splendidissimella on Geum sp.; 53, S. dorsigutella on Quercus pubescens, 54, 55, A. platani on Platanus sp.

FIGURES 122 – 125. Genitalia of the Nepticulidae species occurring in the Crimea. 122, Fomoria septembrella, male genital capsule slide no. AN 519; 123, same, phallus, genitalia slide no. AN 521; 124, Acalyptris platani, male genitalia slide no. AN 500; 125, same, female genitalia slide no. RA 237.