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Issue: Vol. 5190 No. 3: 29 Sept. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-09-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.3.5
Page range: 419-424
Abstract views: 392
PDF downloaded: 30

Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Rufitidia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini) from China, with descriptions of two new species

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
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 Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha morphology taxonomy new species China

Abstract

The genus Rufitidia Dworakowska is reviewed with two new species from China: R. fissa sp. nov. and R. dissidens sp. nov. Detailed morphological descriptions and illustrations of these two new species and a key to all known species (males) are provided.

 

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