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*Plerochila horvathi (Schouteden) 



Cysteochila horvathi Schouteden 1907, p. 286 [Mauritius]. 

 Cysteochila (Parada) horvathi: Horvath 1925a, p. 3. 



Plerochila horvathi: Drake 1954c, p. 69 [Kenya; Tanganyika]; 1957e, 

 p. 401 [Reunion; Congo; South-West Africa]. — Orian 1956, p. 

 647.— Mamet 1957, p. 57. 

 Pleurochila [sic] horvathi: Drake and Mamet 1956, p. 301 [Olea europea; 

 Jasminum], 

 Type: Sex unknown; Mauritius Island; Cent. Afr. Mus. 

 Distribution: Mascarene Islands (Reunion; Mauritius); Tanganyika; 

 Kenya; Congo; South-West Africa. 

 Host Plants: Jasminum sp.; Olea europea. 



*Plerochila rutshurica Schouteden 



Plerochila rutshurica Schouteden 1954, p. 140 [Congo; Ruanda; Olea]. 



Type: Unknown. 



Distribution: Congo; Ruanda-Urundi. 



Host Plant: Olea sp. 

 *Plerochila zululandana Drake 



Plerochila (nom. nud.) zululandana Drake 1953d, p. 213 [Zululand]. 



Type: Holotype d 1 ; Eshowe, Zululand; British Mus. 



Distribution: South Africa (Zululand). 



Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Genus PLESEOBYRSA Drake and Poor 



Pleseobyrsa Drake and Poor 1937c, p. 165.— Hurd 1946, p. 470.— Drake 

 and Runoff 1960a, p. 79. 

 Type Species: Pleseobyrsa boliviana Drake and Poor. 



*Pleseobyrsa ablusa Drake and Hambleton 



Pleseobyrsa ablusa Drake and Hambleton 1946b, p. 124 [Peru]. 

 Type: Holotype o 71 , macropterous; Changos, Peru; Drake Coll. (USNM). 

 Distribution: Peru. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



*Pleseobyrsa atratarsis Drake and Hambleton 



Pleseobyrsa atratarsis Drake and Hambleton 1944b, p. 127, fig. 1 

 [Brazil].— Drake and Davis 1960, fig. 49. 

 Type: Holotype 9, macropterous; Pocas de Caldas, Minas Gerais, 

 Brazil; Drake Coll. (USNM). 

 Distribution: Brazil. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



