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Issue: Vol. 3151 No. 1: 5 Jan. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-01-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3151.1.4
Page range: 53–62
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 1

Review of the grass feeding leafhopper genus Paramesodes Ishihara (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) from China

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui Province 230036, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China
Hemiptera Taxonomy Auchenorrhyncha new species China

Abstract

The Chinese leafhopper species of the genus Paramesodes Ishihara are revised, one new species P. cangshanae sp. n. is described and a key is provided for the five Chinese species in this genus.

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