(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 ♂, RA 237 ♀, RA 243 ♀; 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).