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Issue: Vol. 4150 No. 5: 16 Aug. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-08-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.5.5
Page range: 581–590
Abstract views: 71
PDF downloaded: 3

Paraorosius, a new genus of leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae:
Deltocephalinae: Opsiini), with description of a new species from the Middle East

King Saud University Museum of Arthropods, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Department of Natural Sciences, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, CF10 3NP. Wales, United Kingdom.
King Saud University Museum of Arthropods, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha Distribution Morphology Identification

Abstract

A new genus, of the leafhopper tribe Opsiini, Paraorosius is proposed to accommodate Orosius minuicus Dlabola, 1979 and, P. hanii sp. n. from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A key to the genera of Opsiini of the Arabian Peninsula is provided.

 

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