First report on the leafhopper genus Jogocerus Viraktamath (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from China, with description of one new species

Abstract

The subfamily idiocerinae is a moderately large group of the leafhoppers, consisting of two tribes and more than 98 genera 650 species worldwide. So far 57 species under 14 genera of two tribes have been recorded from China. The leafhopper genus Jogocerus was described by Viraktamath (1979) with Jogocerus freytagi Viraktamath as the type species from India. In this paper, one new species J. hainanensis from Hainan Province, China is described and illustrated. This represents the first record of the genus from China. The type speciemens of the new species are deposited in the collections of the College of Life Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, China.