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Issue: Vol. 2614 No. 1: 16 Sep. 2010
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2010-09-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2614.1.7
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 34

New records of Haplaxius (Hemiptera: Cixiidae) in the Dominican Republic,with description of a new species

Centro de Tecnologia Agricola (CENTA), Instituto Dominicano de Investigaciones Agropecuarias y Forestales (IDIAF), Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Plant Sciences Institute, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, c/o National Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 37012, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013
Centro de Tecnologia Agricola (CENTA), Instituto Dominicano de Investigaciones Agropecuarias y Forestales (IDIAF), Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana
Hemiptera Cixiidae Haplaxius

Abstract

The planthopper genus Haplaxius Fowler has a New World distribution. Kramer (1979) revised the New World Myndus Stål, consisting of 63 species. In that revision, Kramer synonymized Haplaxius and Paramyndus Fennah under Myndus, and P. cocois Fennah (1945), the type species of Myndus, as a junior synonym of M. crudus. Emeljanov (1989) reinstated the genus Haplaxius Fowler for the New World species formerly in Myndus. These consequent name changes have been accepted by all subsequent taxonomists (e.g., see Holzinger et al. 2002) but use of the name Myndus, when referring to New World species is still widely used, erroneously, in the applied literature.

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