Aconurella Ribaut 1948

Menghwar, Sapna, Khatri, Imran, Rustamani, Maqsood Anwar, Sultana, Riffat & Ahmed, Zubair, 2015, New record of Aconurella erebus (Distant 1908) for Pakistan (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14, pp. 189-192 : 190

Genus Aconurella Ribaut 1948

Aconurella erebus (Distant 1908) Deltocephalus erebus Distant, 1908: 385

Description. Size 3.1 mm. Vertex black with yellow markings at apex at each side with posterior border yellow, pronotum shiny black, scutellum shiny black with posterior brown margins. Eyes grey with yellow posterior margins. Forewing black and shiny, the costal margin and apical area light yellow. Face black and shiny, clypeus black with yellow spots. Well-developed style claw, the both of the processes are wide apart, pair of spinular bunches near the anal tube base. At apex aedeagus is slightly expanded.

Material examined. Pakistan: Sindh Prov., Mirpurkhas, 13.VII.2014, 1 ♂, light trap (Sapna Menghwar leg.) .

Type material information (According to Ghauri 1974). ♀ wiTH circulAr red mArgined ‘Type’ lABel Deltocephalus erebus lABel 28X27’ HAnd wriTTen By DiSTAnT AT MATiAnA in SimlA HillS AT THe height of 8000 ft. A printed label 1911-383 by Distant Coll, here labelled as lectotype and designated as Aconurella erebus (Distant) . 1 female here is provided with proper labels and with the same ata as Type female here labelled as (mixed with others) paralectotype. India: 1 ♂ on clover SS-11 (Central Potato Research Institute, Simla), IV.1972 (mixed with others) in Commonwealth Institute of Entomology Coll. no. A5534, in British Museum of Natural History.

Remarks. Previously known from Simla Hills, India. New record for Pakistan. According to Ghauri (1974), this species is similar to Cicadula (Deltocephalus) montanus Pruthi, 1930 . Posterodorsal angle similar to Aconurella japonica (Matsumura, 1914) but differs from it by the existence of a bunch of spinules near the anal tube base.