Stirellus kumratensis Naveed & Zhang

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 : 191

Stirellus kumratensis Naveed & Zhang

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Stirellus kumratensis Naveed & Zhang, 2020: 481 .

Measurement. Male: 3.57–3.60mm.

Material examined. 1♂, Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kumrat Valley, 2359m, July 2016, coll. Hassan Nav- eed (holotype). Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Naran City, 2409m, July 2016, coll. Hassan Naveed. 3♂♂, Paki- stan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kumrat Valley, 2359m, August 2018, coll. Hassan Naveed (paratype).

Remarks. This species resembles Stirellus laetus (Melichar) but can readily be differentiated in having the crown with pair of longitudinal orange stripes along the mesal margins of eyes, male pygofer with macrosetae, style apophysis small and aedeagus with a spine-like apex.

Figures

FIG. 1. Stirellus kumratensis Naveed & Zhang. A–B: habitus, dorsal view; C: habitus, lateral view; D: head and thorax, dorsal view; E: face; F: male pygofer, lateral view; G: male pygofer, dorsal view; H: subgenital plate, style and valve, dorsal view; I: connective; J: aedeagus, dorsal view; K: aedeagus, lateral view.