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Issue: Vol. 4365 No. 1: 15 Dec. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-12-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4365.1.6
Page range: 85–93
Abstract views: 93
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Three new species of Peruvian Nelidina (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Neocoelidiinae) with key to males

Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68044, Rio de Janeiro, 21941-971, RJ, Brazil.
Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha leafhopper morphology Neocoelidiini taxonomy

Abstract

Three new species of Nelidina DeLong, 1953 are described and illustrated, N. bifida sp. nov., N. coronata sp. nov. and N. platypenis sp. nov., all from Peru. A key to males of the six known species of Nelidina is presented and a new record for Nelidina sportula Kramer, 1967 is added.

 

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