Indian Journal of Entomology
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  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 82
  • Issue: 2

New distribution records for the leafhopper genus Hishimonus Ishihara from India

National Pusa Collection, Division of Entomology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012

*Email: nmmeshram@gmail.com (corresponding author)

Online published on 21 July, 2020.

Abstract

This study on the species of the genus Hishimonus Ishihara viz., Hishimonus aberrans Knight (Himachal Pradesh), H. acuminatus Knight (Uttarkhand), H. concavus Knight (Nagaland), H. longisetosus Viraktamath and Murthy (Kerala, Nagaland), H. neilsoni Knight (Maharashtra), H. pallidus Dai, Fletcher and Zhang (Haryana and Uttarkhand) and H. phycitis (Distant) (Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand), reveals them as new distribution records. All these species are redescribed and illustrated herein.

Keywords

Hishimonus, Opsiini, redescription, new locality records, morphology, H. aberrans, acuminatus, concavus, longisetosus, neilsoni, pallidus, phycitis