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Species Stephanitis pyrioides - Azalea Lace Bug

Corythucha on Vitis in Georgia - Stephanitis pyrioides

Stephanitis, maybe S. pyrioides? - Stephanitis pyrioides

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Infraorder Cimicomorpha

Superfamily Miroidea

Family Tingidae (Lace Bugs)

Subfamily Tinginae

Tribe Tingini

Genus Stephanitis

Species pyrioides (Azalea Lace Bug)

Explanation of Names

Stephanitis pyrioides (Scott 1874)

Size

3.4-4 mm(1)

Range

native to E. Asia (prob. originates from Japan), adventive elsewhere, incl. NA (e. US to TX + WA-CA) and other continents(1)[Cite:185010](2)(3)

Food

azaleas (primarily evergreen ones)[Cite:185010]

Life Cycle

Can be 3 generations a year (4)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: Washington, DC 1910(2)

Print References

Fact sheets: by R. Rosetta(3), by Gyeltshen & Hodges[Cite:185010] (beware of errors)

Works Cited

1.	Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera Lehr, P. A., ed. 1988. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House.

2.	Heteroptera of economic importance Schaefer C.W., Panizzi A.R. (eds). 2000. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 828 pp.

3.	Pacific Northwest Nursery IPM Website

4.	Eastern Forest Insects Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 3 November, 2006 - 2:46pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 13 July, 2023 - 9:15am

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