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Acalypta platycheila: Horvath 1906a, p. 30, pi. 1, fig. 4 [England; Hungary; 

 Siberia].— Stichel 1926, p. 107, fig. 295; 1960a, p. 279 [Norway; 

 Poland; Yugoslavia].— Kiritshenko 1951, p. 244.— Bator 1953, 

 p. 324.— Massee 1954, p. 259.— Mancini 1954b, p. 11 [Italy].— 

 Cobben 1958b, p. 16. 

 Type: Unknown. 



Distribution: England; Netherlands; Belgium; France; Italy; Czecho- 

 slovakia; Austria; Hungary; Yugoslavia; Poland; Germany; Denmark; Swe- 

 den; Norway; (Lapland); Finland; U.S.S.R. (Estonia; Latvia; Siberia). 

 Host Plants: Carex sp.; moss. 



* Acalypta pulchra Stusak 



Acalypta pulchr a Stusak 1961b, p. 261, figs. 1-3 [Bulgaria; moss]. 

 Type: Holotype d\ brachypterous; Borovec, Rila Planina, Bulgaria; 

 Stusak Coll., Prague, Czechoslovakia. 

 Distribution: Bulgaria. 

 Host Plant: Moss. 



* Acalypta samara (Puton) 



Orthostira samara Puton 1887, p. 98 [Switzerland]. 



Acalypta samara: Horvath 1906a, p. 27. — Roubal 1958, p. 54 [France]. — 

 Stichel 1960a, p. 274, fig. 44 [Austria]. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Lugano, Switzerland; Paris Mus. 

 Distribution: Switzerland; France; Austria. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



* Acalypta saundersi (Downes) 



Drakella saundersi Downes 1927b, p. 60 [B.C.]. 



Acalypta saundersi: Drake 1928c, p. 4, fig. lb; 1930d, p. 268 [moss; 

 Wash.]. 

 Type: Holotype 9, macropterous; Goldstream, British Columbia, 

 Canada; Canada. Coll. 

 Distribution: Canada (B.C.); U.S. (Wash.; Oreg.). 

 Host Plant: Moss. 



* Acalypta sauteri Drake 



Acalypta sauteri Drake 1942a, p. 14 [Japan]. — Takeya 1951a, p. 6. 

 Type: Holotype o 71 , brachypterous; Oayama, Japan; Drake Coll. 

 (USNM). 

 Distribution: Japan. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 

 Note: Intercepted at port-of-entry, New York City, on packing mosses. 



Acalypta sejuncta Horvath 



Acalypta sejuncta Horvath 1905b, p. 561 [Armenia]; 1906a, p. 30 [Syria]. — 

 Oshanin 1908, p. 409 [Transcaucasus] .— Hoberlandt 1955, p. 86 

 [Turkey] . 



