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Dictyonota tricornis var. americana Parshley 1916a, p. 164 [Maine]; 1917b, 

 p. 53; 1923a, p. 103; 1923b, p. 699 [N.S.].— Blatchley 1926, p. 472.— 

 Proctor 1946, p. 74.— Bailey 1951, p. 30.— Lindberg 1958, p. 78 

 [Cape Verde; Heliotr opium erosum]. 

 Dictyonota ifranensis Vidal 1951, p. 63 [Morocco]. 

 Type: Unknown. 



Distribution: England; Ireland; Wales; Netherlands; Belgium; France; 

 Portugal; Spain; Italy; Sardinia; Sicily; Balearic Islands; Switzerland; 

 Czechoslovakia; Austria; Germany; Poland; Denmark; Sweden; Norway; 

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

 Turkestan; Armenia); Hungary; Albania; Greece; Crete; Bulgaria; 

 Yugoslavia; Turkey; Iran; Algeria; Tunisia; Morocco; Cape Verde Islands 

 (Sao Nicolao); U.S. (Maine); Canada (N.S.; N.B.). 



Host Plants: Artemisia campestris; Artemisia sp.; Chrysanthemum sp.; 

 Cytisus scoparius; Echium vulgare; Echium sp.; Heliotropium erosum; Hieracium 

 sp.; Mentha sp.; Sedum acre; Senecio jacobaea; Thymus sp.; Verbascum sp. 



Note: (1) Myrmecophile, nymphs and adults found in nests of Myrmica 

 rubra [Butler]; Lasius niger [Sahlberg]; (2) introduced into Canada and U.S.; 

 (3) see Drake and Ruhoff 1960a, p. 7 re monomial system. 



Dictyonota (Alcletha) tricornis var. cicur Horvath 



Dictyonota tricornis var. cicur Horvath 1905b, p. 563 [Hungary]. — Dobsik 



1951, p. 40. 

 Dictyonota (Alcletha) tricornis var. cicur: Horvath 1906a, p. 42. — Stichel 

 1960a, p. 287 [Czechoslovakia]. 

 Type: Holotype o 71 ; Kecskemet, Hungary; Hungarian Mus. 

 Distribution: Hungary; Czechoslovakia. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Subgenus DICTYONOTA (ELINA) Ferrari 



Dictyonota (Elina) Ferrari 1878, p. 84. — Horvath 1906a, p. 44. — 

 Oshanin 1908, p. 417; 1912, p. 43.— Stichel 1935, p. 348; 1960a, 

 p. 288.— Drake and Ruhoff 1960a, p. 52. 



Elina: Lethierry and Severin 1896, p. 9. 

 Type Species: Dictyonota beckeri Jakovlev. 



*Dictyonota (Elina) beckeri Jakovlev 



Dictyonota beckeri Jakovlev 1871, p. 25 [Russia]. 



Dictyonota (Elina) beckeri: Ferrari 1878, p. 84. — Puton 1895, p. 86. — 

 Horvath 1906a, p. 44 [Rumania]. — Kiritshenko 1951, p. 246. 

 Type: Holotype 9, brachypterous; Astrakhan, Russia; Leningrad Inst. 

 Distribution: U.S.S.R.; Rumania. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



