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Genus

Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902

Habitus, dorsal view on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus bicolor, dorsally (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus bicolor, dorsally (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902 n. sp. 42-39: (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus bicolor, laterally (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902 n. sp. 42-39: (Observation).
Head on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus bicolor, face (INHS). (Observation).
Head on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus bicolor, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally (INHS). (Observation).
Head on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus labiatus, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Head on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus labiatus, face. (Observation).
Head on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus bicolor, face (INHS). (Observation).
Nymph on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: (Observation).
Nymph on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus bicolor, pygofer, laterally (INHS). (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: subgenital plate, ventrally. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus bicolor, aedeagus, laterally (INHS). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).
Connective on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus bicolor, connective and styles, laterally (INHS). (Observation).
Forewing on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus atropunctus, forewing. (Observation).
Forewing on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus bicolor, forewing (INHS). (Observation).
Hind wing on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus atropunctus, hindwing. (Observation).
Ovipositor on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus bicolor, 1st valvula dorsal sculpturing (INHS). (Observation).
Ovipositor on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus bicolor, 1st valvula (INHS). (Observation).
Ovipositor on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Stirellus bicolor, 2nd valvulae (INHS). (Observation).
Ovipositor on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: ovipositor. (Observation).
Ovipositor on Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Sternite VII. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (26)

  • Athysanus (Stirellus) Osborn & Ball, 1902a: 250.

    type species by original designation Athysanus bicolor Van Duzee, 1892

  • Giffardia Kirkaldy, 1906c: 336.

    type species by original designation Giffardia dolichocephala Kirkaldy, 1906

  • Allectus Distant, 1918 (subjective synonym of Athysanus (Stirellus) Osborn & Ball, 1902) in Duan, Zhang & Dietrich, 2019a: 205.
  • Giffardia Kirkaldy, 1906 (subjective synonym of Athysanus (Stirellus) Osborn & Ball, 1902) in Duan, Zhang & Dietrich, 2019a: 205.

Nomenclature references (20)

  • Osborn, H. & Ball, E.D. (1902a) A review of the North American species of Athysanus (Jassidae). The Ohio Naturalist, 2, 231–256.
  • Melichar, L. (1903b) Homopteren-Fauna von Ceylon. In Verlag von Felix L. Dames. Berlin. pp. i-iv, 1-248. Verlag von Felix L. Dames. Berlin. iv + 248 pp. + 6 pls.
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1906c) Leaf-hoppers and their natural enemies. (Pt. IX. Leaf-hoppers-Hemiptera). Report of work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Entomological series, 1(9), 271–479.
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1907d) Leaf-Hoppers - Supplement (Hemiptera). Report of work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Entomological series, 3, 1–186, i-iii, pls. 1–20.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1914c) Nomenclatural and critical notes on Hemiptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 46, 377–389.
  • Distant, W.L. (1918b) Rhynchota. VII. Homoptera: appendix. Heteroptera: addenda. In A.E. Shipley & G.A.K. Marshall (Eds.). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor & Francis, London. Vol. 7, pp. i-viii + 1–210.
  • Haupt, H. (1929c) Neueinteilung der Homoptera-Cicadina nach phylogenetisch zu wertended Merkmalen. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 58, 173–286.
  • Osborn, H. (1930a) North American leafhoppers of the Athysanella group. (Homoptera Cicadellidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 23, 687–720 + pls. 1–7.
  • Singh-Pruthi, H. (1930a) Studies on Indian Jassidae (Homoptera). Part I. Introductory and description of some new genera and species. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 11, 1–68 + pls. I-V.
  • Beamer, R.H. & Tuthill, L.D. (1934a) Some new species and a new genus of deltocephaloid leafhoppers. (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 7(1), 1–24.
  • Linnavuori, R.E. (1959b) Revision of the Neotropical Deltocephalinae and some related subfamilies (Homoptera). Annales Zoologici Societatis Zoologicae-Botanicae Fennicae 'Vanamo', 20(1), 1–370.
  • Emeljanov, A.F. (1962b) New tribes of leafhoppers of the subfamily Euscelinae (Auchenorrhyncha. Cicadellidae). [Новые трибы цикадок из подсем. Euscelinae (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae)]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 41(2), 388–397. [in Russian; translated into English in Entomological Review, Washington, 41(2), 236–240]
  • Vilbaste, J. (1965a) On the Genus Aconura Leth. (Homoptera, Jassidae). Notulae Entomologicae, 45, 3–12.
  • Emeljanov, A.F. (1966b) (On the tribe Stirellini trib. n. and its taxonomic position (Homoptera, Cicadellidae).) [О трибе Stirellini trib. n. и ее систематическом положении]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 45(4), 609–610. [in Russian]
  • Dlabola, J. (1971a) Taxonomische und chorologische Ergänzungen der Zikadenfauna von Anatolien, Iran, Afghanistan und Pakistan. Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca, 68, 377–396.
  • Hamilton, K.G.A. (1975b) Review of the tribal classification of the leafhopper subfamily Aphrodinae (Deltocephalinae of authors) of the Holarctic region (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 107, 477–498.
  • Shobharani, M. (2008) Taxonomic studies on Penthimiinae and tribe Stenometopiini of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 274 pp. PhD thesis.
  • Xing, J.-C. & Li, Z.-Z. (2010b) A new synonym of the genus Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Munis Entomology & Zoology, 5(2), 821–822.
  • Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 45, 1–211. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.45
  • Duan, Y.-N., Zhang, Y.-T. & Dietrich, C.H. (2019a) Six new species of Stenometopiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) with redescription of additional species and new distributional records. Zootaxa, 4603(2), 201–240. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4603.2.1

Type

type species by original designation of Stirellus Osborn & Ball, 1902

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Greek: στεῖρα (keel) + -ellus (diminutive suffix)

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus101112
Species53083136
Subspecies301114