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Issue: Vol. 4281 No. 1: 22 Jun. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-06-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4281.1.22
Page range: 232–237
Abstract views: 114
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new Dikraneurini genera from Ecuador (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae)

Centro de BioInvestigaciones (UNNOBA - CICBA) Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de Buenos Aires, Avenida Presidente Frondizi 2650, Pergamino, 2700, Argentina.
Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, 1816 S. Oak Street, Champaign, Illinois, 61820, USA.
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha new record new genus morphology distribution

Abstract

 

Two new genera, Sakakidikra n. gen. and Tricella n. gen., of tribe Dikraneurini McAtee are described from Ecuador, each based on a single new species, Sakakidikra jazminae n. sp. and Tricella antonellae n. sp. Both new genera described have only three apical cells in the forewing, an unusual characteristic in Typhlocybinae, but given the differences in the forewing and hind wing venation and male genitalia characters we consider it more appropriate to place the specimens in two separate monotypic genera.

 

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