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Issue: Vol. 4664 No. 4: 5 Sept. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-09-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4664.4.10
Page range: 581–586
Abstract views: 231
PDF downloaded: 1

Review of leafhopper genus Dwightla McKamey (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Selenocephalini) with description of a new species from Central African Republic

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha taxonomy morphology

Abstract

The leafhopper genus Dwightla McKamey (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Selenocephalini) is reviewed with description of a new species, Dwightla lancea sp. nov., from Central African Republic. An updated checklist with distribution and a key to males of this genus from Afrotropical Region are also provided.

 

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