Genus Adelungia Melichar, 1902 Adelungia Melichar, 1902: 134. Type species: Adelungia elegans Melichar, 1902, by monotypy. Diagnosis. Head of imago with short or enlarged compressed process directed at nearly right angle to horizontal plane of the head (Figs 1A, 2, 5A–B). Aedeagus without lateral processes basally; aedeagal shaft cylindrical, not serrated, with pair of subapical denticles (Mozaffarian & Gnezdilov 2022, figs 18 a–b, 19 a–b). Species composition. Two species, A. elegans Melichar and A. primigena Dlabola differing from each other by the shape and size of the head process (Figs 1A, 2, 5A–B). Distribution. The genus is limited to southeastern Iran in distribution (Fig. 10).

Published as part of Gnezdilov, Vladimir M. & Neimorovets, Vladimir V., 2023, Revisionary notes on the genus Adelungia Melichar, 1902 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae Megophthalminae), with the description of a new genus, pp. 564-574 in Zootaxa 5284 (3) on page 565, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5284.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/7929725