Monacha fruticola (Krynicki, 1833)

Gural-Sverlova, N. V. & Gural, R. I., 2024, Alien Mollusks Of Crimean Origin In Other Parts Of Ukraine: Present Distribution And Chronology Of Its Discovery, Zoodiversity 58 (5), pp. 369-380 : 375-376

Monacha fruticola (Krynicki, 1833)

The natural range of M. fruticola is apparently limited to Crimea. Previously it was also mentioned for Asia Minor ( Schileyko, 1978), although this could refer to other Monacha species ( Hausdorf, 2000). In this case, the only reliable record of M. fruticola outside Ukraine was made in 2016 in Armenia (Gural-Sverlova et al., 2017) in summer cottages near Yerevan (Dzoraghbyur, Kotayk Region). In Ukraine outside Crimea, the earliest known record of this species was made in 1959 in Odesa and its vicinity ( Schileyko, 1978). Until 2018, all known findings of M. fruticola were limited to the south of Ukraine ( table 1). Then this species was recorded much further to the north — in the western (in and near Lviv) and central (in and near Kyiv) parts of Ukraine ( Balashov, Markova, 2023 a; Gural-Sverlova, Gural, 2020 b).

Most of the known records of M. fruticola outside Crimea were made in Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa, and Zaporizhzhia Regions ( fig. 2 ). In particular, M. fruticola is not only widespread, but also a mass species of land snails both in the southern ( Gensytskyi, 2021) and northern ( Gural-Sverlova et al., 2018) parts of the Zaporizhzhia Region. In contrast to B. cylindrica ( fig. 1 ), only a few records of M. fruticola are known so far in the Donetsk Region ( fig. 2 ).

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Fig. 2. Known records of Monacha fruticola in Ukraine outside Crimea; symbols are similar to fig. 1.

Fig. 1. Known records of Brephulopsis cylindrica in Ukraine outside Crimea: black circles indicate material of the State Museum of Natural History in Lviv (mainly) and other personally examined samples; white circles — other sources of information (see Material and Methods). Different localities within the same settlement or in its immediate vicinity are shown with one symbol.