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Issue: Vol. 4999 No. 2: 9 Jul. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-07-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.2.2
Page range: 117-131
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Revision of a unique Australian leafhopper genus Stenopsoides Evans (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Idiocerinae: Macropsini)

Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Agriculture Victoria, Agribio, Centre for Agribioscience, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, 3083, Victoria, Australia
New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Forest Road, Orange, 2800, NSW, Australia
Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Agriculture Victoria, Agribio, Centre for Agribioscience, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, 3083, Victoria, Australia; Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University, Bundoora, 3083, Victoria
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O.D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University, Bundoora, 3083, Victoria
Australian macropsines morphology new species descriptions parthenogenesis Hemiptera

Abstract

The Australian genus Stenopsoides Evans (Idiocerinae: Macropsini) is revised. The type species, S. turneri Evans, is redescribed and three new species are added: S. newi Semeraro sp. nov., S. punctatus Semeraro sp. nov. and S. truncatus Semeraro sp. nov.. Species photographic plates, a distribution map and an illustrated key to the four species are provided. The possibility of parthenogenetic reproduction occuring in this genus is discussed.

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