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Issue: Vol. 3382 No. 1: 9 Jul. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-07-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3382.1.7
Page range: 66–68
Abstract views: 64
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Thaia Ghauri (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, with a key to Chinese species

Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, China Institute of South China Karst, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550001, China The State Key Laboratory Incubation Base for Karst Mountain Ecology Environment of Guizhou Province, Guiyang, Guizhou 550001, China
Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, China
Hemiptera Cicadellidae Typhlocybinae

Abstract

The typhlocybine genus Thaia Ghauri, 1962 belongs to the tribe Erythroneurini with Thaia oryzivora Ghauri, 1962 as its type species. The genus consists of three subgenera: Niema Dworakowska, 1979, Nlunga Dworakowska, 1974 and Thaia Ghauri, 1962. Up to the present, 34 described species are distributed throughout the Oriental and Afrotropical regions, and some species are pests of rice. (Ghauri 1962; Song & Li 2008).

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    Song, Y.H. & Li, Z.Z. (2008) Notes on species of the genus Thaia Ghauri (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, with description of a new species, The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 84(4), 334–340.