ADDITIONAL NOTES ON 
STEPHANITIS TAKEYAI IN NEW ENGLAND 
(HETEROPTERA: TINGIDAE) 
By Norman S. Baiiley 
Kingston, New Hampshire 03848* 
In 1950 I reported this Asiatic lace bug as a serious pest of Pieris 
japonica (Thunberg) Don in Greenwich, Connecticut, and the 
surrounding area. Since 1956 I have been teaching at Bradford 
College, in northeastern Massachusetts. Although there are several 
specimens of Pieris on the rather nicely landscaped campus and in 
the planting around a college house I lived in for many years, I saw 
no evidence of lace bugs until the fall of 1973. On that occasion I 
searched the plants showing considerable injury but failed to find 
any tingids. 
On September 9, 1974, however, I noted that the same plants 
showed typical signs of severe feeding injury and found numerous 
nymphs and adults of Stephanitis takeyai on the undersides of the 
leaves of two Japanese Andromedas. 1 These plants grow in a mixed 
shrub planting along the north foundation of our main lecture hall. 
In the same foundation planting are such other evergreen ericaceous 
shrubs as Pieris floribunda Bentham & Hooker, Rhododendron caro- 
linianum Rehder, Kalmia latifolia L., Leucothoe catesbaei Gray, and 
a few deciduous azaleas. With the exception of an azalea, whose 
branches intermingle with one of the infested Pieris japonica , there 
was no evidence of lace bug feeding nor did I find any tingids on 
the other ericaceous plants. This particular azalea, which may be 
R. calendulaceum Torrey, does show lace bug injury and specimens 
were collected from it. Many of its leaves had also been almost 
skeletonized in a way that suggested Japanese beetle damage. 
A few days later I found another heavily infested Pieris japonica 
in a planting near a small building towards the south end of the 
campus. This suggested checking further. On October 1st, two more 
plants were found on the front campus with tingids present in some 
*Address after July 1, 1975: Mohler Laboratory, Swans Island Marine 
Station, Swans Island, Maine 04685. 
The original name of this species, globulifera Matsumura, turns out to 
be a junior homonym, and it was renamed takeyai by Drake and Maa, 
1955. See also Drake and Ruhoff, 1965. 
Manuscript received by the editor November 2, 1974. 
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