Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) of Iraq: checklist and new records

Author:

Gnezdilov V.M.1,Schmidt C.2

Affiliation:

1. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Emb. 1, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia

2. Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, 159 Königsbrücker Landstr., 01109 Dresden, Germany

Abstract

All available data on Auchenorrhyncha from Iraq are summarized, listing 11 families and 128 species in 94 genera including the subfamily Ulopinae Le Peletier et Audinet-Serville, 1825, the tribe Vartini Zahniser et Dietrich, 2013, the subtribes Adelungiina Baker, 1915, and Paradorydiina Evans, 1936 and the genera Cofana Melichar, 1926, Utecha Emeljanov, 1996, Varta Distant, 1908, Balcanocerus Maldonado-Capriles, 1971, Hespericerus Gnezdilov, 1999, Platyproctus Lindberg, 1925, Achrus Lindberg, 1925, Dryodurgades Zachvatkin, 1946, Paradorydium Kirkaldy, 1901, Artianus Ribaut, 1942, Tamaricades Emeljanov, 1962, and Masiripius Dlabola, 1981 of the family Cicadellidae, with 18 species, and Trypetimorpha occidentalis Huang et Bourgoin, 1993 of the family Tropiduchidae and Ommatidiotus iranicus Horváth, 1905 and Chirodisca astyages (Dlabola, 1982) of the family Caliscelidae are recorded for the first time from Iraq. Zubara lycii Al-Ne’amy et Linnavuori, 1982 is redescribed based on the specimens from Diyala Province. Zygina hussaini Ghauri, 1964 is placed in synonymy under Arboridia kermanshah Dlabola, 1963. Dictyophara iracina Dlabola, 1989 is transferred to the genus Raivuna Fennah, 1978, with a new combination proposed – Raivuna iracina (Dlabola, 1989), comb. n. The lectotype is designated for Dorydium breviceps Melichar, 1902 [currently Paradorydium breviceps (Melichar, 1902)] to stabilize the nomenclature in the studied group according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.

Publisher

Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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