Mustha vicina Hoberlandt, 1997

Mustha vicina Hoberlandt, 1997

General distribution: Iran ( Hoberlandt, 1997). This species is recorded for Turkish fauna in the first time.

Material examined: Gaziantep - Central province , 15.VI.1971, 4 ♁♁, 1 ♀ ; 13.VI.1973, 2 ♀♀ ; Araban - Başpınar Village , 25.IX.2001 .

Host plants: Amygdalus scoparia ( Hoberlandt, 1997; Bolu et al., 2006), Pistacia vera ( Özgen et al., 2005) .

Records given as Mustha vicina in the present study are actually the records of M. incana and M. longispinis reported in the study of Önder et al. (1995) from Gaziantep-Central province. These researchers gave no detailed information about the locality and sex of the specimens. In this study, however, after identifying both species as M. vicina , the missing locality and sex data for them are given above. Similarly, the specimens recorded from Şanlıurfa (Central province, Bozova-Tülmen) by Özgen et al. (2005), and from Diyarbakır (Çermik-Saray) Elazığ (Gezin) and Mardin (Akbağ, Yeşilli) by Bolu et al (2006) as M. longispinis reidentified as M. vicina .