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Type: Sex unknown; Finland; Lund Zool. Inst. 



Distribution: England; Scotland; Netherlands; France; Germany; 

 Italy; Switzerland; Czechoslovakia; Austria; Hungaiy; Poland; Denmark; 

 Norway; Sweden; Finland; (Lapland); Iceland; U.S.S.R. (Estonia; 

 Latvia); Tunisia. 



Host Plants: Calluna vulgaris; Er odium sp.; Hieracium murorum; Spartium 

 junceum; Thymus serpyllus; moss. 



* Acalypta nigrinervis Stal 



Acalypta nigrinervis Stal 1874, p. 52 [Spain]. — Horvath 1906a, p. 28. 



Orthostira nigrinervis: Ferrari 1878, p. 82. — Puton 1879c, p. 95 

 [France].— Chicote 1880, p. 189. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Spain; Stockholm Mus. 

 Distribution: Spain; France. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



* Acalypta nyctalis Drake 



Acalypta nyctalis Drake 1928c, pp. 3, 5 [N.H.; Alta.]. — Bailey 1951, 

 p. 35.— Lindberg 1958b, p. 13 [Nfld.; Alaska; moss]. 

 Type: Holotype 9, brachypterous; Franconia, New Hampshire, U.S.; 

 USNM. 

 Distribution: U.S. (N.H.; Alaska); Canada (Alta.; Nfld.). 

 Host Plant: Mosses. 



* Acalypta parvula (Fallen) 



Tingis parvula Fallen 1807, p. 37 [Sweden]; 1829, p. 145. — Curtis 

 1839, tab. 741 [England].— Fieber 1861, p. 384. 



Monanthia obscura Herrich-Schaeffer 1837, p. 23, pi. 118, fig. 372 

 [Germany; moss]. — Vollenhoven 1878, p. 281, pi. 10, fig. 2. 



Orthosteira obscura: Fieber 1844, p. 54, pi. 4, figs. 22-25 [Czechoslovakia; 

 Austria; Thymus serpyllus'].- — Sahlberg 1848, p. 130.— Herrich- 

 SchaefTer 1850, p. 160.— Mayr 1858, p. 569 [Hungary]. 



Monanthia (Phyllontocheila) parvula: Fieber 1844, p. 66. 



Orthostira obscura: Fieber 1861, p. 131. — Douglas and Scott 1865, p. 

 263.— Frey-Gessner 1865, p. 233 [Switzerland].— Garbiglietti 1869, 

 p. 275 [Italy]. 



Orthostira parvula: Thomson 1871, p. 401.- — Reiber and Puton 1876, 

 p. 68.— Puton 1879c, p. 99 [France; Corsica].— Reuter 1882b, p. 116 

 [Finland].— Saunders 1892, p. 127, pi. 11, figs. 10, 10a.— Hiieber 

 1893, p. 312.— de Walsche 1960, p. 38. 



Acalypta parvula: Stal 1874, p. 52.— Reuter 1874, p. 564; 1880b, p. 

 165.— Saunders 1875, p. 252.— Horvath 1906a, p. 33 [Spain; Bel- 

 gium]. — Oshanin 1908, p. 412 [Portugal; Algeria]. — Jensen-Haarup 

 1912, p. 152, fig. 95 [Denmark].— Reichensperger 1920, p. 61 — 

 Sahlberg 1920, p. 81 [Thymus].— Butler 1923, p. 204 [Scotland; 

 Ireland; Herniaria].— Stichel 1926, p. 107, fig. 297; 1938a, p. 404 



