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Type: Sex unknown; Boskoop, Netherlands; Hungarian Mus. 



Distribution: Netherlands; Belgium; France; Germany; Switzerland; 

 Finland; Sweden; Denmark; Scotland; England; South Africa (Cape 

 Province); Canada (Nfld.; B.C.); U.S. (Maine; N.H.; Mass.; Conn.; R.I.; 

 N.Y.; N.J.; Pa.; Ohio; Md.; D.C.; Va.; W. Va.; N.C.; S. C; Fla.; Oreg.; 

 Wash.; Vt); New Zealand. 



Host Plants: Kalmia angustifolia; Kalmia latifolia; Pieris floribunda; Pieris 

 japonica; Rhododendron species, those reported: america; Antoon van Welie; 

 caractacus; Cunningham's White; cynthia; Dr. V.H. Rutgers; everestianum; 

 Jastuosum; hollandia; maximum; Mme. Mason; Mme. Carvalho; Mr. R.S. 

 Holford; Mme. de Bruin; parsons gloriosum; Peter Koster; Van der Hoop. 



Note: Life history studies [Heidemann; Crosby and Hadley; Dickerson; 

 Johnson; Wilson; Felt; Bruel; Balachowsky and Mesnil]. Found on 120 

 species of Rhododendron [Van den Broek and Schenk]. 



♦Stephanitis steeleae Drake and Maa 



Stephanitis steeleae Drake and Maa 1954, p. 116 [India]. 

 Type: Holotype cf, macropterous; Cha Che, Delai Valley, Mishmi Hills, 

 Assam, India; British Mus. 

 Distribution: India. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



*Stephanitis subfasciata Horvath 



Stephanitis subfasciata Horvath 1912b, pp. 320, 325 [China; Taiwan]. — • 

 Esaki 1926, p. 163.— Drake and Poor 1937b, p. 404 [Java].— Drake 

 1948b, p. 56 [India]; 1956d, p. 115 [Burma; Cocculus; Hernandia; 

 Peleliu; Argaut]. — Maa 1957, pp. 129, 132 [Cocculus trilobus]. 

 Stephanitis (Menodora) subfasciata: Wu 1935, p. 449. 

 Type: Unknown. 



Distribution: China; Taiwan; Burma; India; Palau Islands (Peleliu; 

 Argaut); Greater Sunda Islands (Java). 



Host Plants: Cocculus trilobus; Cocculus sp.; Hernandia sp. 

 ♦Stephanitis svensoni Drake 



Stephanitis svensoni Drake 1948b, p. 51 [Japan]. — Takeya 1953d, p. 169, 



fig. la. 

 Stephanitis shirozui Takeya 1951b, p. 60, fig. 2 [Illicium religiosum]. 

 Type: Holotype o", macropterous; Shimabara Pen., Japan; Drake Coll. 

 (USNM). 

 Distribution: Japan. 

 Host Plant: Illicium religiosum. 

 ♦Stephanitis tabidula Horvath 



Stephanitis tabidula Horvath 1912b, pp. 323, 333 [Japan]. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Kanagawa, Japan; Hungarian Mus. 

 Distribution: Japan. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



