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Issue: Vol. 4790 No. 1: 10 Jun. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-06-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4790.1.13
Page range: 193–197
Abstract views: 242
PDF downloaded: 2

A review of the leafhopper genus Pseudosubhimalus Ghauri (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) with description of a new species from Pakistan

College of Life Science, Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan 614004, China.
School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui Province 230036, China.
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China.
Hemiptera Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha morphology identification

Abstract

A new species of the leafhopper genus Pseudosubhimalus Ghauri (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Cicadulini), Pseudosubhimalus pakistanicus sp. n., is described from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Figures for habitus and genitalic characters are given for this new species and newly recorded species from Pakistan. A key to all the known species of the genus Pseudosubhimalus is provided.

 

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