Corresponding author: Nabila Guerrouche (
Academic editor: J. Adilson Pinedo-Escatel
A continuous monitoring of leafhoppers in a pear orchard (
The species is recorded for the first time from Algeria and is re-described and illustrated along with the male and female genitalia structures for the first time.
The leafhopper family
The genus
In Algeria, great undiscovered richness of entomofauna species still exist because of the different topographic conditions, the large diversity of vegetation and various kinds of climate. As part of doctoral research on insect pests associated with pear trees, insect samples were taken from February 2019 to August 2019, in an agro-ecosystem of pear orchards in Khemis Miliana City (Ain Defla). It is about 120 km away from Algiers. The plain of Khemis Miliana has an agricultural vocation, characterised by a semi-arid continental climate with dry summers and rainy winters. The surface area of the prospected parcel is 3 hectares containing 1200 trees planted in lines with a spacing of 1.50 m (Fig.
The specimens used in this study are deposited in the laboratory of Dynamic and Biodiversity, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria and University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, “UASB” collection.
There were 69 specimens of
The genus
The authors gratefully acknowledge the help of Dr. James Zahniser (APHIS, USA), Dr. M. R. Wilson, (Cardiff, UK) and Dr. Germot Kunz (Austria), for providing relevant literature, comments on the identity of the species and the images of specimens of
In the memory of Mr. Redouane Larouci, the authors dedicate this humble article to him.
Nabila Guerrouche; fieldwork and insects collection, identification of insects, preparation of the manuscript.
Kamel Hamadi; sampling methodology, revision of the manuscript.
Faiza Marniche; identification of insects, data validation.
Hocine Aziri; fieldwork, sampling methodology.
Pear tree orchard, Khemis Miliana (Photos by Guerrouche N., 2019),
Map of the distribution of