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Issue: Vol. 1333 No. 1: 12 Oct. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-10-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1333.1.3
Page range: 55–62
Abstract views: 63
PDF downloaded: 32

A new stegelytrine leafhopper genus from China and Thailand (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, SW7 5BD, London, UK
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, SW7 5BD, London, UK
Hemiptera Cicadellidae Stegelytrinae new genus new species mud-puddling

Abstract

A new Oriental stegelytrine leafhopper genus, Wyuchiva, and two new species, Wyuchiva elegantula (type species) from Thailand and Wyuchiva menglaensis from China, are described and illustrated. The taxonomic position of the new genus is discussed and phylogenetic remarks on this and a related genus, Temburocera Webb, 1999, are given.

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