Stirellus mankiensis Shah & Duan

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 : 402-403

Stirellus mankiensis Shah & Duan

(See Shah et al., 2020: 200–201, Figs 9–10)

Stirellus mankiensis Shah & Duan, 2020 in Shah et al., 2020: 200 .

Measurement. Male: 3.8–4.0mm; female: 5.0mm.

Material examined. Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 11³³, 2♀♀, Manki , 34°0′34.5096 N, 73°19′44.4432 E, sweeping hand net, 20 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah.

Distribution. Pakistan.

Remarks. The species can be distinguished from other species of Stirellus by its distinctive external appearance and crown with anterior margin slightly bulbous. This species is somewhat similar to Stirellus neospeciosus Duan, Webb & Zhang in the form of the aedeagus but can easily be separated by the subgenital plate with macrosetae not uniseriate and the connective stem longer than arms; it is also very different from in external appearance.