Stirellus indrus (Distant)

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 : 401-402

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5702A0E3-325C-4FDF-8C77-6846E2DE952D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4326825

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C253A769-5F71-FF94-FF68-105A2D4CFEDE

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scientific name

Stirellus indrus (Distant)
status

 

Stirellus indrus (Distant) n. rec.

( Fig. 2 View FIG )

Typhlocyba indra Distant, 1908: 415 View in CoL .

Aconura bipunctella Matsumura, 1914: 232 View in CoL .

Paivanana indra, Distant, 1918: 95 View in CoL .

Paivanana centristriata Dai & Li, 2003 in Dai, Chen & Li, 2003: 31 View in CoL .

Stirellus indrus, Li, Dai & Xing, 2011: 273 ; Duan, Webb & Zhang, 2016: 116 View Cited Treatment .

Measurement. Male: 2.9mm; female: 3.6mm.

Description. Coloration. Normally pale greyish ( Fig. 2 View FIG A–C). Crown with two conspicuous black spots normally between anterior margins of eyes, and to some extent adjacent to eyes than each other ( Fig. 2A, 2C View FIG ). Face having two blackish round marks on each side below the antennal sockets ( Fig. 2D View FIG ). Forewing with longitudinal brown bands, tinged with purple or green color ( Fig. 2 View FIG A–B).

Morphology. Head subconical, nearly subequal in width to pronotum ( Fig. 2A, 2C View FIG ), with anterior margin smoothly curved to face, acutely angled ( Fig. 2D View FIG ). Crown somewhat longer than breadth between eyes ( Fig. 2A, 2C View FIG ). Ocellus next to the eye at anterior margin. Eye comparatively large ( Fig. 2 View FIG A–D). Anteclypeus tapering towards apex, exceeding beyond the normal curve of genae. Pronotum median length almost equal to the median length of crown ( Fig. 2A, 2C View FIG ). Mesonotum and scutellum smaller than pronotum. Forewing macropterous, normally exposing the apex of abdomen in females and occasionally in males ( Fig. 2 View FIG A–B).

Male genitalia. Pygofer side with few dorsal macrosetae, almost truncate apically ( Fig. 2E View FIG ). Subgenital plate a little concave laterally, macrosetae uniseriate laterally ( Fig. 2F View FIG ). Style narrow, with apophysis slender, digitate, to some extent curved laterally ( Fig. 2F View FIG ). Aedeagal shaft long, bent near base, parallel to base of aedeagus, with tip pointed, gonopore apical ( Fig. 2I View FIG ). Female hind margin of 7 th sternum almost straight.

Material examined. Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 1♀, Nowshera , 34°0′53.8056 N, 71°58′59.3184 E, sweeping hand net, 21 July 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah GoogleMaps ; 1♀, Faqir Baba , 33°54′53.4888 N, 72°9′56.2176 E, sweep-ing hand net, 20 July 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah GoogleMaps ; Punjab: 1³, Pir Sohawa , 33°45′37.674 N, 73°3′57.528 E, sweep-ing hand net, 6 August 2018, coll. Bismillah Shah. GoogleMaps

Distribution. Pakistan, China, India.

Remarks. Though there is considerable variation in color pattern of this species, it can be recognized by the vertex with two conspicuous black spots between the anterior margins of the eyes, and by a brown longitudinal line on the forewing.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Stirellus

Loc

Stirellus indrus (Distant)

Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan & Duan, Yani 2020
2020
Loc

Stirellus indrus

Duan, Y. N. & Webb, M. D. & Zhang, Y. L. 2016: 116
Li, Z. Z. & Dai, R. & Xing, J. 2011: 273
2011
Loc

Paivanana centristriata Dai & Li, 2003 in Dai, Chen & Li, 2003: 31

Dai, R. H. & Chen, X. X. & Li, Z. Z. 2003: 31
2003
Loc

Paivanana indra

Distant, W. L. 1918: 95
1918
Loc

Aconura bipunctella

Matsumura, S. 1914: 232
1914
Loc

Typhlocyba indra

Distant, W. L. 1908: 415
1908
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