Stephanitis oschanini Vasiliev, 1935 Material examined. AFGHANISTAN mer.: KANDAHĀR, Kandahār, 950 m a.s.l., 4.iii.1953, 32 ♁♁ 55 ♀♀, J. Klapperich lgt., P. Kment det. (NMPC). Kandahār – Kuna, 1200 m a.s.l., 1.iii.1953, 5 ♀♀, J. Klapperich lgt., P. Kment det. (NMPC). AFGHANISTAN or.: NŪRESTĀN, valley of Bashgul river, Kāmū, 1500 m a.s.l., 26.iv.1953, 7 ♁♁ 29 ♀♀, J. Klapperich lgt., P. Kment det. (NMPC). IRAN bor.: GĪLĀN province, Lāhījān near Caspian Sea, 200 m a.s.l., vii.-viii.1961, 1 ♀, J. Klapperich lgt., L. Hoberlandt 1975 det. as Stephanitis pyri, P. Kment revid. (NMPC). Sheykh Mahallan (= Sheykh Mahalleh), 160 m a.s.l. (37°53′N 48°55′E), 28.vi.-3.vii.1977, 2 ♀♀, Exped. Nat. Mus. Praha lgt., P. Kment det. (NMPC). MĀZANDARĀN province, Shāhī (36°28'N 52°53′E), 25.vi.1977, 23 ♁♁ 24 ♀♀, Exped. Nat. Mus. Praha lgt., P. Kment det. (NMPC). TEHRĀN province, Golhak (= Qolhak) by Tehrān, 1400 m a.s.l., ix.- x.1961, 2 spec., J. Klapperich lgt., L. Hoberlandt 1975 det. as S. pyri, P. Kment revid. (NMPC). Karadj (= Karaj), 5.ix.1970, 1 ♁, Sabzevari lgt., L. Hoberlandt 1973 det. as S. pyri, P. Kment revid. (NMPC). Teheran (= Tehrān), 7.viii.1954, 7 spec., Safavi lgt., L. Hoberlandt 1958 det. as S. pyri, P. Kment revid. (NMPC). Tehrān – Evin, 1700 m a.s.l. (35°49′N 51°23′E), 27.vi.1970, 4 ♁♁ 2 ♀♀, Exp. Nat. Mus. Praha lgt., L. Hoberlandt 1973 det. as S. pyri, P. Kment revid. (NMPC); ditto, 26.vi.-2.vii.1973, 10 ♁♁ 17 ♀♀, Exp. Nat. Mus. Praha lgt., P. Kment det. (NMPC). Tehrān env., Schahabad (= Shāhābād), 30.x.1965, 2♁♁ 2 ♀♀, Safavi lgt., L. Hoberlandt 1973 det. as S. pyri, P. Kment revid. (NMPC). IRAQ bor.: KURDISTAN, Shaklawa (= Shaqlāwah), without date, 2 ♁♁, V. Kálalová-Di Lotti lgt., L. Hoberlandt 1951 det. as S. pyri, P. Kment revid. (NMPC). IRAQ mer. or.: Amara (= Al’Amārah), vi.1956, K. Khalaf coll., P. Kment det. (NMPC). ISRAEL-PALESTINE: Aroob near Hebron, 600 m a.s.l., 22.x.1959, 5 spec., J. Klapperich lgt., L. Hoberlandt 1975 det. as S. pyri, P. Kment revid. (NMPC). TURKEY mer. or.: GAZİANTEP province, Anatolia, Gyaur da g lar i Mts., Tapan (by the road from Osmaniye to İslâhiye), 17.viii.1947, 23 spec., 3 larvae, Exp. N. Mus. ČSR lgt., L. Hoberlandt 1954 det. as S. pyri, P. Kment det. (NMPC). LIS (2002) recognized that the widely distributed Stephanitis pyri (Fabricius, 1775) consists of two species and described S. hoberlandti Lis, 2002 from Iraq (Shaklawa, Arbil Liwa) and ‘Jordan’ (Aroob near Hebron in Western Jordan, i.e. in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel). Subsequently, GOLUB (2002) synonymized S. hoberlandti with S. oschanini, confirmed the validity of that species and recognized that former records of S. pyri from Transcaucasia and Middle Asia belong to S. oschanini. Revision of material housed in NMPC revealed that records of S. pyri from Iraq (HOBERLANDT 1953) and Turkey (HOBERLANDT 1956, ŠTUSÁK 1959), including the description of the 5 th instar larva by ŠTUSÁK (1959), also belong to S. oschanini. Stephanitis oschanini is currently known from Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel (Palestine), Kirgizia, Tadzhikistan, Turkey (Asian part), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan (GOLUB 2002, LIS 2002, this paper; see Fig. 1). New species for Afghanistan and Turkey.

Published as part of Kment, Petr & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2005, New and interesting records of true bugs (Heteroptera) from Turkey, southeastern Europe, Near and Middle East, pp. 3-16 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45 on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4503509