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Issue: Vol. 5222 No. 5: 22 Dec. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-12-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5222.5.7
Page range: 489-494
Abstract views: 251
PDF downloaded: 47

Taxonomy of the leafhopper genus Angolaia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Selenocephalini) with description of a new species from Zambia

1Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 2College of Life Sciences, Yan’an University, Yan’an, Shaanxi 716000, China
1Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha Selenocephalina Angolaia picea taxonomy morphology

Abstract

The African leafhopper genus Angolaia Linnavuori & Al-Ne'amy, 1983 (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Selenocephalini: Selenocephalina) is reviewed, including description of the new species, Angolaia picea sp. nov., from Zambia. An updated checklist with distribution and a key to males in this genus are also provided. Type specimens of this new species are deposited in the Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, USA (INHS).

 

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