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Issue: Vol. 4250 No. 3: 5 Apr. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-04-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.42450.3.2
Page range: 219–228
Abstract views: 68
PDF downloaded: 1

Five new species of the leafhopper genus Thagria Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae) from China

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P. R. China
Hemiptera Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha taxonomy morphology

Abstract

Five new species of genus Thagria are described, illustrated and photographed: T. gansuensis sp. nov., T. menglana sp. nov., T. melanoloma sp. nov., T. incurvata sp. nov., and T. crena sp. nov.

 

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