Stirellus productus Matsumura 1902
Creators: name: Duan, Yani
name: Webb, M. D.
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Stirellus
Stirellus productus

description: Stirellus productus (Matsumura, 1902)
(Figs. 20–21)
Aconura producta Matsumura, 1902: 385, Fig. 15; Esaki & Ito, 1954: 174; Li & Wang, 1991: 170. Doratulina producta, Vilbaste, 1965: 10; Lee & Kwon, 1977: 64; Kwon & Lee, 1979: 100, plate III; Lee, 1979: 326, Figs. 218– 230.
Stirellus productus, Li et al, 2011: 275, Fig. 5 –276.
Length. Male: 4.2–4.7mm; female: 5.6–5.7mm.
Color. General color stramineous throughout (Fig. 20). Frontoclypeus stramineous with fuscous arcs from lateral frontal suture reaching only part way across (Fig. 20 C, 20F).
Body. Head narrower than pronotum, subconical, anterior margin acutely angled. Vertex longer than 2x width between eyes (Fig. 20 A–B, 20D). Ocellus next to eye slightly below anterior margin (Fig. 20 E). Eye relatively large (Fig. 20 A–B, 20D–E). Apex of anteclypeus widened, extending slightly beyond normal curve of genae (Fig. 20 C, 20F). Pronotum median length shorter than median length of crown. Mesonotum and scutellum shorter than pronotum (Fig. 20 A–B, 20D). Forewing macropterous, usually exposing apex of abdomen in female and sometimes in male (Fig. 20 A–B, 20D–E).
Male. Pygofer side without macrosetae, apex as Fig. 21 A (Fig. 21 A). Subgenital plate rounded laterally, macrosetae uniseriate laterally (Fig. 21 C). Style narrow, apophysis long, digitate, strongly laterally curved (Fig. 21 D–E). Connective stem shorter than arms (Fig. 21 F). Aedeagal shaft nearly evenly bent at base, long, slender, parallel to and far away from aedeagal base (Fig. 21 G–I).
Female. Hind margin of seventh sternum concave (Fig. 20 G).
Material examined. China, Shanghai.: 1Ƌ, 3♀, 21 August 1953 (SHEM); Anhui Prov.: 3Ƌ, 4♀, Ningguo City, 22 November 1978, coll. Shi Dasan (SHEM); Fujian Prov.: 28Ƌ, 14♀, Shouning County, 31 July 2003, coll. Duan Yani; Jiangxi Prov.: 8Ƌ, 5♀, Yanshan County, 13 August 2002, coll. Yuan Zhonglin; Hubei Prov.: 2Ƌ, 3♀, Fang County, Jundian Town, 30 July 2001, coll. He Zhiqing; Hunan Prov.: 5Ƌ, 4♀, Chenzhou City, 3 August 1985, coll. Zhang Yalin & Chai Yonghui; Guangdong Prov.: 1Ƌ, Mt. Dinghu, 18 July 1985, coll. Zhang Yalin; Hainan Prov.: 1Ƌ, Mt. Jiangfeng, 29 June 1983, coll. Zhang Yalin; Sichuan Prov.: 1Ƌ, 1♀, Dazu County, 28 August 2002, coll. He Zhiqiang; Guizhou Prov.: 2Ƌ, 1♀, 7 April 1963, coll. Sun Zhongkang (SHEM); Yunnan Prov.: 2Ƌ, 1♀, Dali City, Mt. Weibao, 2200m, 22 July 2001, coll. Sun Qiang; Shaanxi Prov.: 1♀, Ankang City, 2 July 1980, coll. Ma Ning.
Distribution. Japan; Korea and widespread in China.
Remarks. This species was described from several specimens (syntypes) from Japan. These types have not been examined and the identity of the species is based on the figures of Kwon & Lee (1979) and Lee (1979). This species is similar to S. grandis (Matsumura), but it can be distinguished by the following combination of characters: smaller size; apophysis of style long, strongly laterally curved; aedeagal shaft slender, far away aedeagal base.
description: Published as part of Duan, Yani, Webb, M. D. & Zhang, Yalin, 2016, Review of the leafhopper tribe Stenometopiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China with description of four new species, pp. 101-138 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on pages 124-125, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/255851