Stirellus mankiensis Shah & Duan, 2020

Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan & Duan, Yani, 2020, Taxonomic review of the leafhopper genus Stirellus Osborn & Ball (Hemiptera Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Stenometopiini) from Pakistan with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4763 (2), pp. 189-202 : 198-200

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4763.2.3

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C85B6BFB-ED9D-4EE7-AFA7-CD37B0FED688

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3806470

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DD8799-FF98-3B25-FF78-F9D9FEEB89F5

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Carolina

scientific name

Stirellus mankiensis Shah & Duan
status

sp. nov.

Stirellus mankiensis Shah & Duan View in CoL sp. n.

( Figs 9 View FIG –10 View FIG View FIG )

Measurement. Male: 3.80–4.00mm; female: 5.00mm.

Coloration and morphology. General color greyish brown ( Fig. 9 View FIG A–B). Surface of crown, pronotum and scutellum pale to yellowish brown ( Fig. 9A, 9C View FIG ). Crown with brown spots on each side of median vertical suture ( Fig. 9A, 9C View FIG ). Pronotum, mesonotum and scutellum with yellowish brown to dark brownish spots ( Fig. 9A, 9C View FIG ). Eye tinged with yellow and blackish spots. Face yellowish, frontoclypeus with transverse brownish streaks ( Fig. 9D View FIG ). Apical margin of gena as well as anteclypeus dark brown ( Fig. 9B, 9D View FIG ). Forewing with numerous small irregular greyish brown spots, whitish to yellowish brown venation, with costal margin yellow ( Fig. 9 View FIG A–B). Legs yellowish with brown spots. Crown broader than pronotum, slightly longer than breadth between eyes ( Fig. 9A, 9C View FIG ). Crown with anterior margin slightly upturned in lateral view, moderately produced ( Fig. 9A, 9C View FIG ). Ocelli on margin next to eyes ( Fig. 9 View FIG A–C). Face as long as broad ( Fig. 9D View FIG ). Anteclypeus parallel-sided, extending slightly beyond normal curve of genae ( Fig. 9D View FIG ). Pronotum median length slightly shorter than median length of crown. Mesonotum and scutellum shorter than pronotum ( Fig. 9A, 9C View FIG ).

Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe broad basally with apex truncate ( Fig. 10A View FIG ). Pygofer side with two macrosetae dorsally ( Fig. 10A View FIG ). Subgenital plate slightly concave laterally, macrosetae not uniseriate laterally ( Fig. 10B View FIG ). Valve triangular ( Fig. 10B View FIG ). Style narrow with digitate apophysis, laterally curved ( Fig. 10B View FIG ). Connective Y-shaped with arms well separated, stem longer than arms ( Fig. 10C View FIG ). Aedeagal shaft in lateral view bent near base, long, slender, parallel to aedeagal base slightly sinuate, tip pointed, gonopore apical ( Fig. 10 View FIG D–E).

Female genitalia. Female seventh sternum as shown in Fig. 9E View FIG .

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Manki , 34°0′34.5096 N, 72°19′44.4432 E, Sweeping hand net, 20 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah. GoogleMaps Paratypes: 10♂♂, 2♀♀, same data as holotype.

Etymology. The species epithet “mankiensis indicates the type locality Manki in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan.

Remarks. The species can be distinguished from other species of Stirellus by its distinct external appearance and crown with anterior margin slightly bulbous. This species somewhat resembles Stirellus neospeciosus Duan, Webb & Zhang in aedeagal structure but can readily be differentiated by other genital characters like subgenital plates with macrosetae not uniseriate and connective stem longer than arms, also extremely different from them in external appearance.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Stirellus

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