“…The genus Hishimonus Ishihara, 1953 (Deltocephalinae, Opsiini) up to now has about seventy species widely distributed in Asia, Africa, and Australia (Dai et al 2013;Viraktamath & Murthy 2014;Du & Dai, 2019), with its greatest diversity in the Oriental region with minor extensions into the Ethiopian, Australian, and Palaearctic regions (Knight 2010). A great number of species have recently been described (Kamitani et al 2011;Dai et al 2013;Viraktamath & Murthy 2014;Meshram & Chaubey 2016;Du & Dai 2019), and several species were recently first recorded from Russia (Gnezdilov 2008), Slovenia (Seljak 2013), Thailand (Dai et al 2013), and Pakistan (Hassan et al 2018). Currently, Hishimonus is reported for Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, Borneo, China, Ethiopia, Fiji, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia El-Sonbati et al 2018;Du & Dai 2019).…”