Stirellus tolla (Pruthi)

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 : 407-408

Stirellus tolla (Pruthi)

(See Shah et al., 2020: 197–199, Figs 6–8)

Aconura tolla Pruthi, 1930: 39 .

Stirellus tolla, Shah, Naveed & Duan, 2020: 196 .

Measurement. Male: 3.0– 3.5mm; female: 3.8mm.

Material examined. Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 1³, Khairabad , 33°54′15.1596 N, 72°13′37.8264 E, sweeping hand net, 20 August 2018, coll. Bismillah Shah ; 1♀, Kohala Bala , 33°51′51.318 N, 73°12′35.4708 E, sweeping hand net, 30 July 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ; 1♀, Lora , 33°53′31.8804 N, 73°16′50.7288 E, sweeping hand net, 30 July 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ; Punjab: 2³³, 1♀, Pir Sohawa , 33°45′37.674 N, 73°3′57.528 E, sweeping hand net, 6 August 2018, coll. Bismillah Shah ; 1³, Kahuta , 33°35′28.3776 N, 73°22′12.234 E, sweeping hand net, 25 July 2018, coll. Bismillah Shah.

Distribution. Pakistan.

Remarks. This species varies from other species of the genus in size and shape of crown, which is shorter and bluntly angulate at anterior margin, by the eyes surrounded with an orange band and the pronotum posterior region blackish with small dots. This species slightly resembles Stirellus daii Duan, Webb & Zhang in male genitalia but varies in external appearance. Its male genitalia also show resemblance with Stirellus rubrolineatus (Distant) but differ in the structure of the subgenital plate.