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*Monosteira minutula Montandon 



Monosteira minutula Montandon 1897, p. 101 [Algeria].— Horvath 1906a, 

 p. 106 [Tunisia; Egypt].— Drake 1957a, p. 420 [Aden; Yemen; 

 Indigofera] . 

 Monostira minutula: Priesner and Alfieri 1953, p. 66 [Qzyphus spina- 

 ckristi]. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Taguin, Algeria; Bucharest Mus. 

 Distribution: Algeria; Tunisia; Egypt; Senegal; Yemen; Aden Protec- 

 torate. 

 Host Plants: Indigofera sp.; ^izyphus jujuba; ^izyphus spinachristi. 

 Note: Taken at light [Priesner and Alfieri]. 



*Monosteira unicostata (Mulsant and Rey) 



Monanthia unicostata Mulsant and Rey 1852a, p. 134 [France]; 1852b, 

 p. 153.— Fieber 1861, p. 383.— Walker 1873a, p. 187.— Stal 1874, p. 

 58.— Horvath 1874b, p. 432 [Hungary].— Ferrari 1878, p. 66 — 

 Bolivar and Chicote 1879, p. 166. 



Monanthia aliena Fieber 1861, p. 124 [Turkey; Syria]. — Walker 1873a, 

 p. 185.— Jakovlev 1876b, p. 67.— Ferrari 1874, p. 170; 1878, p. 66. 



Monosteira unicostata: Costa 1863, p. 7, pi. 1, fig. 3. — Garbiglietti 

 1869, p. 274 [Italy].— Reuter 1891a, p. 27 [Greece]; 1908, p. 88 — 

 Horvath 1892b, p. 131 [Pinus halepensis; Spartium scoparium]; 1906a, 

 p. 106 [Yugoslavia; Rumania; Caucasus; Armenia; Turkmen; 

 Tunisia]. — Lethierry and Severin 1896, p. 25 [Morocco]. — Stichel 

 1926, p. 116; 1960a, p. 344, fig. 181 [Sardinia; Bulgaria; Prunus 

 persica; Prunus cerasus]. — de Seabra 1931, pp. 439, 444, figs. 510 (1-4), 

 511 [Portugal; Pyrus malus].— Silvestri 1934, p. 259, fig. 222 [Sicily].— 

 Hoberlandt 1942, p. 126 [Czechoslovakia; Transcaucasus] ; 1955, p. 

 96— Blote 1945, p. 92.— Kiritshenko 1951, p. 254. 



Monanthia (Monosteira) unicostata: Puton 1879c, p. 124 [Algeria; 

 Russia; Populus alba]. 



Monostira unicostata: Horvath 1906d, p. 2; 1916, p. 9 [Albania]. — 

 Lindberg 1932a, p. 44 [Alnus glutinosa]; 1948, p. 60 [Cyprus]. — 

 Vidal 1937, p. 199; 1939, p. 27, fig. 1 [Pyrus communis].— Bremond 

 1938, p. 294, pis. 1-3; figs. 1, 2 [Populus nigra; Populus tremula; Pyrus 

 mamorensis; Salix; Cydonia vulgaris; Prunus; Crataegus monogyna; Cerasus; 

 Amygdalus communis]. — Guide 1938, p. 320, fig. — Gonzalez 1948, p. 

 51.— Gomez-Menor 1950, p. 99, figs. 1-5; 1954, p. 383, figs. 5-7 

 [Prunus amygdalus]; 1955a, p. 257, figs. 34, 35 (a-e); 1955b, p. 249; 

 1956a, pp. Ill, 112, pi. 1, figs. 6, 8.— Novak and Wagner 1951, p. 

 71.— Mancini 1953b, p. 186; 1953c, p. 22; 1953d, p. 16.— Seiden- 

 stiicker 1954, p. 236. 

 Type: Languedoc, France; sex and deposition of type unknown. 

 Distribution: Portugal; Spain; France; Italy; Sicily; Hungary; Czecho- 

 slovakia; Yugoslavia; Greece; Albania; Sardinia; Bulgaria; Rumania; 



