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Issue: Vol. 4107 No. 1: 29 Apr. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-04-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4107.1.4
Page range: 81–84
Abstract views: 95
PDF downloaded: 2

First record of the tribe Phlepsiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, with description a new genus and species

Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University; The Provincial Key Laboratory for Agricultural Pest Management Mountainous Region, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025 P.R. China.
Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University; The Provincial Key Laboratory for Agricultural Pest Management Mountainous Region, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025 P.R. China.
Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University; The Provincial Key Laboratory for Agricultural Pest Management Mountainous Region, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025 P.R. China.
Auchenorrhyncha leafhopper morphology taxonomy distribution Hemiptera China

Abstract

The tribe Phlepsiini Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013 is reported from China for the first time based on a new genus and species, Brevivalvala melanosticta gen. et sp. nov., here described and illustrated from Yunnan Province. This new genus can be distinguished from other genera in this tribe by the short valve and subgenital plate without macrosetae.

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