Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902

Shah, Bismillah, Khan, Waqar, Naveed, Hassan, Shakeel, Muhammad & Duan, Yani, 2022, A new species in the grassland leafhopper genus Stirellus Osborn & Ball (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Stenometopiini) from Pakistan, Zootaxa 5125 (3), pp. 344-350 : 345-346

Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902

Athysanus (Stirellus) Osborn & Ball, 1902: 250 (Type: Athysanus bicolor Van Duzee, 1892 ).

Stirellus, Kirkaldy, 1907: 58 .

Doratulina Melichar, 1903: 198 (Type: Doratulina jocosa Melichar, 1903 ).

Phrynophyes Kirkaldy, 1906: 237 (Type: Phrynophyes phrynophyes Kirkaldy, 1906 ).

Anemochrea Kirkaldy, 1906: 329 (Type: Anemochrea mitis Kirkaldy, 1906 ).

Anemolua Kirkaldy, 1906: 329 (Type: Anemolua hanuala Kirkaldy, 1906 ).

Giffardia Kirkaldy, 1906: 336 (Type: Giffardia dolichocephala Kirkaldy, 1906 ).

Arya Distant, 1908: 338 (Type: Arya rubrolineatus Distant, 1908 ).

Trebellius Distant, 1918: 52 (Type: Trebellius albifrons Distant, 1918 ).

Campbellinella Distant, 1918: 69 (Type: Campbellinella illustrata Distant, 1918 ).

Viridomarus Distant, 1918: 69 (Type: Viridomarus capitatus Distant, 1918 ).

Bituitus Distant, 1918: 70 (Type: Bituitus projectus Distant, 1918 ).

Paternus Distant, 1918: 71 (Type: Paternus pusana Distant, 1918 ).

Volusenus Distant, 1918: 72 (Type: Volusenus lahorensis Distant, 1918 ).

Nandidrug Distant, 1918: 74 (Type: Nandidrug speciosus Distant, 1918 ).

Allectus Distant, 1918: 75 (Type: Allectus notata Distant, 1918 ).

Galerius Distant, 1918: 78 (Type: Galerius indicatrix Distant, 1918 ).

Paivanana Distant, 1918: 95 (Type: Typhlocyba indrus Distant, 1908 ).

Gillettiella Osborn, 1930: 689 (Type: Deltocephalus labiatus Gillette, 1898 ).

Bella Pruthi, 1930: 44 (Type: Bella apicalis Pruthi, 1930 ).

Penestirellus Beamer & Tuthill, 1934: 21 (Type: Penestirellus catalinus Beamer & Tuthill, 1934 ).

Sunda Singh-Pruthi, 1936: 112 (Type: Sunda ribeiroi Singh-Pruthi, 1936 ).

Pseudaconura Linnavuori, 1952: 182 (Type: Pseudaconura luxorensis Linnavuori, 1952 ).

Malagasiella Evans, 1954: 110 (Type: Malagasiella minima Evans, 1954 ).

Umesaona Ishihara, 1961: 246 (Type: Umesaona asiatica Ishihara, 1961 ).

Doratulina (Cymbopogonella) Viraktamath, 1976: 79 (Type: Doratulina longivertex Viraktamath, 1976 ).

Anaconura Emeljanov, 1999: 559 (Type: Stirellus aristidae Emeljanov, 1968 ). Synonymized by Duan et al., 2019.

Description. For genus description, see Shah et al., 2020a: 190.

Distribution. Worldwide.

Remarks. Stirellus is the largest genus of Stenometopiini , distributed worldwide. The species included in this genus are very heterogeneous in external morphology and have been placed in various genera at one time or another. Previous studies of the fauna of Pakistan by Khatri & Webb (2010), Naveed et al. (2020) and Shah et al. (2020a, 2020b) documented 12 species. The present study adds 1 more to make a total of 13 species known from Pakistan.

Checklist to species of Stirellus Osborn & Ball from Pakistan

Stirellus capitatus ( Distant, 1918)

Distribution. Pakistan [Jalbai ( Fig. 2 )], China, India, Thailand.

Stirellus indrus ( Distant, 1908)

Distribution. Pakistan [Faqir Baba, Nowshera, Pir Sohawa ( Fig. 2 )], China, India.

Stirellus kumratensis Naveed & Zhang, 2020

Distribution. Pakistan [Abbottabad, Balakot, Bhurban, Bansra Gali, Kumrat, Lower Topa, Muzaffarabad, Naran, New Murree, Pathriata, Sunny Bank ( Fig. 2 )].

Stirellus lahorensis ( Distant, 1918)

Distribution. Pakistan [Buner, Peshawar, Tando Jam ( Fig. 2 )], India, Iran.

Stirellus mankiensis Shah & Duan, 2020a

Distribution. Pakistan [Manki ( Fig. 2 )].

Stirellus neoconvexus Naveed & Zhang, 2020

Distribution. Pakistan [Abbottabad, Ayubia, Bansra Gali, Bhurban, Lora, Maidan, Rawalakot ( Fig. 2 )].

Stirellus pakhtunensis Shah & Duan, 2020b

Distribution. Pakistan [Manki ( Fig. 2 )].

Figures

FIGURE 2. Distribution map of Stirellus species in Pakistan.