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Issue: Vol. 4853 No. 2: 22 Sept. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-09-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4853.2.10
Page range: 292–300
Abstract views: 84
PDF downloaded: 5

A new species of the grass-feeding leafhopper genus Amblysellus Sleesman (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from western Mexico, with a checklist and key to species

Doctorado en Ciencias en Biosistemática, Ecología y Manejo de Recursos Naturales y Agrícolas (BEMARENA), Centro Universitarios de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias (CUCBA), Universidad de Guadalajara, km 15.5 carretera Guadalajara-Nogales, Las Agujas, Zapopan, C.P. 45110, Apdo. Postal 139, Jalisco, México.
Departamento de Botánica y Zoología, CUCBA, Universidad de Guadalajara, km 15.5 carretera Guadalajara-Nogales, Las Agujas, Zapopan, C.P. 45110, Apdo. Postal 139, Jalisco, México.
Doctorado en Ciencias en Biosistemática, Ecología y Manejo de Recursos Naturales y Agrícolas (BEMARENA), Centro Universitarios de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias (CUCBA), Universidad de Guadalajara, km 15.5 carretera Guadalajara-Nogales, Las Agujas, Zapopan, C.P. 45110, Apdo. Postal 139, Jalisco, México.
Instituto Tecnológico José Mario Molina Pasquel y Henríquez, campus Arandas, Calle José Guadalupe Tejeda Vázquez No. 557, C.P. 47185, Arandas, Jalisco, México.
Hemiptera Deltocephalini Auchenorrhyncha morphology seasonal morphs Jalisco

Abstract

A new Mexican leafhopper species, Amblysellus raygozai sp. nov., is described and illustrated from western Mexico. Specimens were collected over perennial grasses. A key for all recognized species within the country is provided.

 

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