Discovery of Hishimonus diffractus Dai, Fletcher & Zhang, 2013 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) in Europe, with remarks on previously recorded species of the genus
Author
Bella, Salvatore
Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria (CREA) - Centro di ricerca olivicoltura, frutticoltura e agrumicoltura. Corso Savoia, 190 - 95024 Acireale (CT), Italy. & Universidade da Madeira, 9000 - 390 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. & CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 601 Vairão, Portugal. Secretaria Regional da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural, Laboratório de Qualidade Agrícola, Caminho Municipal dos Caboucos, 61, 9135 - 372, Camacha, Madeira, Portugal.
Author
Aguiar, António M. F.
Author
Kunz, Gernot
Institut für Biologie, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Universitätsplatz 2, 8010 Graz, Austria.
Author
Miralles-Núñez, Adrià
Institució Catalana d’Història Natural, Carrer del Carme, 47, 08001, Barcelona, Spain.
Author
Foster, Stuart
128 Lyndale Avenue, Edenthorpe, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN 3 2 JX, United Kingdom.
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Sánchez-García, Iñigo
Zoobotánico de Jerez. c. / Madreselva s / n. 11408, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.
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Wilson, Michael R.
0000-0002-4052-6993
Department of Natural Sciences, National Museum Wales, Cardiff, CF 10 3 NP, United Kingdom. Michael. Wilson @ museumwales. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4052 - 6993
ilson@museumwales.ac.uk
Author
D’Urso, Vera
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-07-01
5159
4
558
570
journal article
88686
10.11646/zootaxa.5159.4.5
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1175-5326
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Hishimonus sellatus
(Uhler, 1896)
Origin
. Eastern Asia.
Distribution
.
Afghanistan
,
Armenia
,
Australia
,
China
,
Ethiopia
,
Georgia
,
India
,
Indonesia
,
Korea
,
Japan
,
Malaysia
,
Papua New Guinea
, the
Philippines
,
Sri Lanka
, and
Tanzania
. In Europe accidentally introduced in
Russia
(
Gnezdilov 2008
;
Dmitriev 2018
).
First record and country in Europe
. 2007,
Russia
(
Krasnodar
Territory) (
Gnezdilov 2008
).
Host plant
. Polyphagous species. In
China
H. sellatus
is common on
Morus alba
,
Rosa
spp.
, and
Ziziphus jujuba
(
Hao
et al.
2015
)
.
Remarks
. This species is similar to
Hishimonus truncatus
Kuoh, 1976 (
China
)
, but
H. sellatus
can be identified by the short, broadly lamellate, laterally concave aedeagal shafts; the female sternite VII nearly twice as wide as long, posterior margin slightly curved with two median denticles separated by a tiny notch and second valvulae with dorsal teeth small and not prominent (
Du & Dai 2019
).
H. sellatus
in
Georgia
and in southern
Russia
is recorded as a vector of ‘Mulberry small leaf curl’ a phytoplasma disease on mulberry plants (
Gnezdilov 2008
).