Stirellus lahorensis (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 : 402

Stirellus lahorensis (Distant)

(See Shah et al., 2020: 193, Fig. 2 )

Volusenus lahorensis Distant, 1918: 72 .

Stirellus peshawarensis Mahmood, Sultana & Waheed, 1972: 80 .

Paternus jhokensis Ahmed & Aziz, 1988: 805 .

Stirellus lahorensis, Khatri & Webb, 2010: 1–47 ; Naveed et al., 2020: 480 .

Measurement. Male: 3.4–3.6mm; female: 4.1mm.

Material examined. Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 11³³, 7♀♀, Buner , 34°23′39.5592 N, 72°36′54.4212 E, light trap, 20 July 2018, coll. Bismillah Shah.

Distribution. Pakistan, India, Iran.

Remarks. This species resembles S. viridulus (Pruthi) in male genitalia but S. lahorensis (Distant) has the crown more angulate and strongly produced than S. viridulus (Pruthi) .

Figures

FIG. 2. Stirellus indrus (Distant) n. rec. A: habitus, dorsal view; B: habitus, lateral view; C: head and thorax, dorsal view; D: face; E: male pygofer, lateral view; F: subgenital plates, valve and styles, dorsal view; G: connective, dorsal view; H: aedeagus shaft, dorsal view; I: aedeagus, lateral view.