Stirellus neoconvexus Naveed & Zhang

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 : 403-404

Stirellus neoconvexus Naveed & Zhang

(See Shah et al., 2020: 194, Fig. 3 )

Stirellus neoconvexus Naveed & Zhang, 2020 in Naveed et al. 2020: 481 .

Measurement. Male: 3.5–3.7mm; female: 3.9mm. Material examined. Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 8³³, 6♀♀, Maidan, 34°57′6.678 N, 71°48′29.5632 E, sweeping hand net, 13 July 2018, coll. Bismillah Shah ; 1♀, Abbottabad , 34°10′7.5036 N, 73°13′17.3892 E, sweep-ing hand net, 23 July 2018, coll. Bismillah Shah ; 1♀, Ayubia , 34°1′48.5544 N, 73°24′24.4332 E, sweeping hand net, 28 July 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ; 4³³, 1♀, Lora , 33°53′31.8804 N, 73°16′50.7288 E, sweeping hand net, 30 July 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ; Punjab: 1³, 2♀♀, Bansra Gali , 33°54′17.532 N, 73°22′13.9656 E, sweeping hand net, 1 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ; 1³, Bhurban , 33°56′27.3228 N, 73°26′48.7428 E, sweeping hand net, 1 August 2019, coll. Bismillah Shah ; Azad Kashmir: 1♀, Rawalakot , 33°50′34.098 N, 73°47′18.366 E, sweeping hand net, 26 July 2018, coll. Bismillah Shah.

Distribution. Pakistan.

Remarks. This species is similar to Stirellus convexus Thomson but differs in having the male pygofer side with macrosetae present dorsally, the shape of the style and in having the aedeagal shaft with a slight expansion dorsally. This species is also similar to Stirellus multipunctatus Duan, Webb & Zhang but can readily be distinguished by the medially interrupted orange-red or brownish red stripes on the head, and by the shape of the pygofer and aedeagus.

Figures

FIG. 3. Stirellus pakhtunensis Shah & Duan sp. n. 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, styles and connective, dorsal view; G: aedeagus, dorsal view; H: aedeagus, lateral view.