Genus Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902
Compiler and date details
27 July 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Stirellus Osborn, H. & Ball, E.D. 1902. A review of the North American species of Athysanus (Jassidae). Ohio Naturalist 2: 231-256 [250] [first introduced as a subgenus of Athysanus Burmeister].
Type species:
Athysanus bicolor Van Duzee, 1892 by original designation. Type species:
Doratulina jocosa Melichar, 1903 by monotypy.- Phrynophyes Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [327].
Type species:
Phrynophyes phrynophyes Kirkaldy, 1906 by original designation. - Anemochrea Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [329].
Type species:
Anemochrea mitis Kirkaldy, 1906 by monotypy. - Arya Distant, W.L. 1908. Rhynchota. — Vol. IV. Homoptera and Appendix. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 4: 1-501 [338].
Type species:
Arya rubrolineata Distant, 1908 by original designation. - Trebellius Distant, W.L. 1918. Rhynchota. Homoptera: Appendix. Heteroptera: Addenda. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 7(i-viii): 1-210 [52].
Type species:
Trebellius albifrons Distant, 1918 by original designation. - Campbellinella Distant, W.L. 1918. Rhynchota. Homoptera: Appendix. Heteroptera: Addenda. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 7(i-viii): 1-210 [69].
Type species:
Campbellinella illustrata Distant, 1918 by original designation. - Bituitus Distant, W.L. 1918. Rhynchota. Homoptera: Appendix. Heteroptera: Addenda. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 7(i-viii): 1-210 [70].
Type species:
Btiuitus projectus Distant, 1918 by original designation. - Paternus Distant, W.L. 1918. Rhynchota. Homoptera: Appendix. Heteroptera: Addenda. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 7(i-viii): 1-210 [71].
Type species:
Paternus pusanus Distant, 1918 by original designation. - Volusenus Distant, W.L. 1918. Rhynchota. Homoptera: Appendix. Heteroptera: Addenda. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 7(i-viii): 1-210 [72].
Type species:
Volusenus lahorensis Distant, 1918 by original designation. - Nandidrug Distant, W.L. 1918. Rhynchota. Homoptera: Appendix. Heteroptera: Addenda. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 7(i-viii): 1-210 [74].
Type species:
Nandidrug speciosum Distant, 1918 by original designation. - Allectus Distant, W.L. 1918. Rhynchota. Homoptera: Appendix. Heteroptera: Addenda. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 7(i-viii): 1-210 [75].
Type species:
Allectus notatus Distant, 1918 by original designation. - Galerius Distant, W.L. 1918. Rhynchota. Homoptera: Appendix. Heteroptera: Addenda. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 7(i-viii): 1-210 [78].
Type species:
Galerius indicatrix Distant, 1918 by original designation. - Paivanana Distant, W.L. 1918. Rhynchota. Homoptera: Appendix. Heteroptera: Addenda. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 7(i-viii): 1-210 [95].
Type species:
Paivanana indra Distant, 1918 by original designation. - Bella Singh Pruthi, H. 1930. Studies on Indian Jassidae (Homoptera). Part I. Introductory and description of some new genera and species. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 11(1): 1-68 [44].
Type species:
Bella apicalis Singh Pruthi, 1930 by original designation. - Penestirellus Beamer, R.H. & Tuthill, L.D. 1934. Some new species and a new genus of deltocephaloid leafhoppers (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 7(1): 1-24 [21].
Type species:
Penestirellus catalinus Beamer & Tuthill, 1934 by original designation. - Sunda Singh Pruthi, H. 1936. Studies on Indian Jassidae (Homoptera). Part III. Descriptions of some new genera and species, with records of some known species from India. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 11(3): 101-131 [112].
Type species:
Sunda ribeiroi Singh Pruthi, 1936 by original designation. - Pseudaconura Linnavuori, R.E. 1952. Studies on some Palearctic Hemiptera. Suomen Hyönteistieteellinen Aikakauskirja 18(4): 181-195 [182].
Type species:
Pseudoconura luxorensis Linnavuori, 1952 by original designation. - Umesaona Ishihara, T. 1961. Homoptera of Southeast Asia collected by the Osaka City University Biological Expedition to Southeast Asia. 1957-58. Nature and Life in Southeast Asia 1: 225-257 [246].
Type species:
Umesaona asiatica Ishihara, 1961 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Linnavuori, R.E. 1959. Revision of the Neotropical Deltocephalinae and some related subfamilies (Homoptera). Annales Zoologici Fennici 20(1): 1-370 [319] (synonymy of Penestirellus)
- Emeljanov, A.F. 1962. [New tribes of leafhoppers of the subfamily Euscelinae (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae)]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 41: 388-397 [393] (synonymy of Doratulina, Phrynophyes, Anemochrea, Arya, Trebellius, Campbellinella, Bituitus, Paternus, Volusenus, Nandidrug, Paivanana, Bella, Sunda, Pseudaconura, Umesaona)
- Vilbaste, J. 1965. On the genus Aconura Leth. Notulae Entomologicae 45: 1-12 [10] (synonymy of Allectus, Galerius)
Introduction
This genus is widespread around the world and includes numerous species many of which have very similar male genitalia. A comprehensive molecular analysis of the genus is needed to determine whether the apparent similarity in the structures of the male genitalia conceals a more complex generic arrangement. The Australian fauna includes three described species at least one of which is polymorphic in terms of tegmen length. S. fatigandus (Kirkaldy) is widespread in coastal areas of Australia as well as elsewhere in the Oriental region. S. mitis (Kirkaldy) is less common and is known from the Sydney basin of New South Wales with a single record from North Queensland. S. petfordensis was described in 2019 from a single male collected near Petford, a locality west of Cairns in the Wet Tropics of Queensland. An undescribed species is known from the Kununurra region of NE Western Australia.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Formosa.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Diagnosis
Head about as wide as pronotum, vertex narrow, rarely as wide as the long diameter of an eye, usually longer than its basal width. Front inflated, almost touching eyes above; vertex and front produced into a long, conical point, their margins indistinct. Elytra narrow, about as long as the abdomen; venation as in Athysanus, regular; ovipositor long and narrow, extending beyond the elytra (Osborn & Ball 1902).
The species all appear to have similar male genitalia with the pygofer being triangularly produced and the aedeagus strongly recurved and attenuated to form a long undulating filamentous structure reaching back beyond the basal attachment of the aedeagus.
Diagnosis References
Osborn, H. & Ball, E.D. 1902. A review of the North American species of Athysanus (Jassidae). Ohio Naturalist 2: 231-256 [250]
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Dec-2019 | 16-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Dec-2019 | 05-Aug-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |