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Host-plants. Crataegus spp. in the Crimea (as in other regions).
Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Submediterranean; the species occurs from Spain and Great Britain to Finland, central European Russia and Greece.
Material examined. CRIMEA: 1 ♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, 23.vii. 1987, at light, leg. Yu. Budashkin, genitalia slide no. AG 108 ♂; 1 ♂, the same locality, at light, 12.vii. 1987, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide no. AN 204 ♂; 2 ♂, Yalta, Mountain Forest Reserve, mining larva on Crataegus sp., fieldwork card no. 5042, 19.vii. 2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide no. AN 498 ♂.
Remarks. The species is not rare in the Crimea: widespread but not abundant.