Hishimonus sellatus (Uhler, 1896)

Bella, Salvatore, Aguiar, António M. F., Kunz, Gernot, Miralles-Núñez, Adrià, Foster, Stuart, Sánchez-García, Iñigo, Wilson, Michael R. & D’Urso, Vera, 2022, Discovery of Hishimonus diffractus Dai, Fletcher & Zhang, 2013 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) in Europe, with remarks on previously recorded species of the genus, Zootaxa 5159 (4), pp. 558-570 : 565

Hishimonus sellatus (Uhler, 1896)

Origin. Eastern Asia.

Distribution. Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, China, Ethiopia, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania. In Europe accidentally introduced in Russia ( Gnezdilov 2008; Dmitriev 2018).

First record and country in Europe. 2007, Russia (Krasnodar Territory) ( Gnezdilov 2008).

Host plant. Polyphagous species. In China H. sellatus is common on Morus alba , Rosa spp. , and Ziziphus jujuba ( Hao et al. 2015) .

Remarks. This species is similar to Hishimonus truncatus Kuoh, 1976 ( China) , but H. sellatus can be identified by the short, broadly lamellate, laterally concave aedeagal shafts; the female sternite VII nearly twice as wide as long, posterior margin slightly curved with two median denticles separated by a tiny notch and second valvulae with dorsal teeth small and not prominent ( Du & Dai 2019). H. sellatus in Georgia and in southern Russia is recorded as a vector of ‘Mulberry small leaf curl’ a phytoplasma disease on mulberry plants ( Gnezdilov 2008).