Stirellus kumratensis Naveed & Zhang

Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan & Duan, Yani, 2020, A new species and four new records of Stirellus Osborn & Ball (Hemiptera Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Stenometopiini) from Pakistan with a revised key to species, Zootaxa 4895 (3), pp. 398-410 : 402

Stirellus kumratensis Naveed & Zhang

(See Shah et al., 2020: 192, Fig. 1 )

Stirellus kumratensis Naveed & Zhang, 2020 in Naveed et al., 2020: 481 .

Measurement. Male: 3.5–3.6mm; female: 3.9mm.

Material examined. Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 2³³, 1♀, Abbottabad , 34°10′7.5036 N, 73°13′17.3892 E, sweeping hand net, 23 July 2018, coll. Bismillah Shah ; 1♀, Barkot , 34°35′58.3944 N, 73°22′41.8764 E, sweep-ing hand net, 11 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ; 14³³, 11♀♀, Balakot , 34°34′18.1668 N, 73°21′46.6668 E, sweeping hand net, 12 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ; Punjab: 6³³, 3♀♀, Pathriata , 33°52′29.6292 N, 73°27′23.5044 E, sweeping hand net, 29 July 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ; 1³, 7♀♀, Bansra Gali , 33°54′17.532 N, 73°22′13.9656 E, sweeping hand net, 1 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ; 4♀♀, Bhurban , 33°56′27.3228 N, 73°26′48.7428 E, sweeping hand net, 1 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ; 4³³, 3♀♀, Sunny Bank , 33°55′1.1244 N, 73°23′39.8256 E, sweeping hand net, 15 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ; 5♀♀, Lower Topa , 33°53′51.198 N, 73°25′53.8932 E, sweeping hand net, 16 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ; 3♀♀, New Murree , 33°52′36.8148 N, 73°27′2.4912 E, sweeping hand net, 16 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ; Azad Kashmir: 1♀, Muzaffarabad , 34°21′44.1144 N, 73°27′10.62 E, sweeping hand net, 14 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah.

Distribution. Pakistan.

Remarks. This species looks similar to Stirellus laetus (Melichar) but can easily be separated by the crown with a pair of orange longitudinal stripes along the mesal margins of eyes, the male pygofer with macrosetae, the style apophysis small and the aedeagus with a spine-like apex.

Figures

FIG. 1. Stirellus capitatus (Distant) n. rec. A: habitus, dorsal view; B: habitus, lateral view; C: head and thorax, dorsal view; D: face; E: end of female abdomen, ventral view; F: male pygofer, lateral view; G: subgenital plate, dorsal view; H: valve, dorsal view; I: style, dorsal view; J: connective, dorsal view; K: aedeagus, lateral view.