Psammotettix alienus (Dahlbom, 1850)

Abdollahi, Tandis, Jalalizand, Ali Reza, Mozaffarian, Fariba & Wilson, Michael, 2015, A faunistic study on the leafhoppers of northwestern Iran (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), ZooKeys 496, pp. 27-51 : 42

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Cicadellidae

Psammotettix alienus (Dahlbom, 1850)

Psammotettix alienus : Ribaut 1952: 243, figs 579-580; Emeljanov 1964: 541, fig. 194: 8, 9; Biedermann and Niedringhaus 2009: 337.

Material examined.

Ardabil: 4♂♀, Moghan, 18.May.1978, leg. Abaii (Fig. 1, A1).

Azarbaijan-e-Sharghi: 3♂♀, Marand, 1610 m, 28.July.1976, leg. Broumand & Pazouki (Fig. 1, ASh6).

Azarbaijan-e-Sharghi: 1♀, Tabriz, Gharachaman, 1600 m, 16.July.1976, leg. Broumand & Pazouki (Fig. 1, ASh8).

Dlabola (1981) reported this species from Marand, Sufian and Zonuschay, Maku and in 1971 from Tabriz-Bostanabad, Miyaneh-Zanjan, Miyaneh-Siah chaman, Siah chaman-Basmenj (Fig. 1, ASh6, ASh7, ASh5, AG1, ASh12, ASh16, ASh15, ASh13).

Worldwide distribution.

East Palaearctic, Europe (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Madeira, Moldova, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia Central, Russia North, South Russia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Yugoslavia), Near East, Nearctic region, North Africa ( De Jong 2013).

Comment.

Nematollahi and Khajehali (2000) reported this species as a vector for wheat dwarf virus on Zea (maize) in Isfahan.