Stephanitis (Stephanitis) oschanini Vasiliev, 1935

Montemayor, I. & Linnavuori, E., 2012, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Zootaxa 3207, pp. 22-39 : 31

Stephanitis (Stephanitis) oschanini Vasiliev, 1935

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan ( Baroughi 1978; Modarres Awal 1997a; Hassanzadeh et al. 2009a,b, all as S. pyri ; Golub 2002; Samin & Linnavuori 2011), Guilan ( Kment & Jindra 2005), Khorasan ( Shahrokhi 1988; Modarres Awal 1997b, all as S. pyri ), Manzandaran ( Kment & Jindra 2005), Tehran ( Hoberlandt 1959, as S. pyri ; Golub 2002, Kment & Jindra 2005), West Azarbaijan ( Gharaat et al. 2009, as S. pyri ), Zanjan ( Askari et al. 2009, as S. pyri ), Iran (no locality cited) ( Dourindich 1962), Iran (generally distributed) ( Modarres Awal 1997a, as S. pyri ).

Host records from Iran. Apple ( Malus pumila Mill. ) ( Shahrokhi 1988; Modarres Awal 1997a; Askari et al. 2009; Hassanzadeh et al. 2009a,b), pear ( Pyrus communis (L.)) ( Modarres Awal 1997a,b), wild pear ( Pyrus pyraster L.), cherry ( Prunus avium (L.)), sour-cherry ( Prunus cerasus L.), peach ( Prunus persica (L.)), Japan quince ( Chaenomeles japonica (Thunb.)) , apricot ( Prunus armeniaca (L.)), quince ( Cydonia oblonga Mill. ), white-thorn ( Crataegus monogyna Jacq. ), Plum ( Prunus domestica L.)), medlar ( Mespilus germanica L.), roses ( Rosa spp. ), alder ( Alnus sp ), oak ( Quercus sp ) ( Modarres Awal 1997a).

General distribution. East Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, and Afghanistan ( Lis 2002; Golub 2002; Kment & Jindra 2005).

Comment. Some papers (see above) mention Stephanitis (Stephanitis) pyri as a species widely distributed in Iran, but the identity of this species has been confused with S. oschanini . The species distributed in Iran is S. oschanini ( Golub 2002, Kment & Jindra 2005). For identification of S. oshanini and S. pyri see Lis (2002).