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Issue: Vol. 1979 No. 1: 14 Jan. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-01-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1997.1.3
Page range: 29–40
Abstract views: 44
PDF downloaded: 16

The genus Jembra Metcalf and Horton from Taiwan with descriptions of two new species and the nymph of J. taiwana sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Aphrophoridae)

Applied Zoology Division, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Council of Agriculture, Wufeng, Taichung 413, Taiwan, ROC
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Department of Entomology, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo Kuang Rd., Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
Hemiptera spittlebug taxonomy morphology nymph

Abstract

The genus Jembra Metcalf and Horton comprises five species from Taiwan and China. In this paper, the fauna of the genus from Taiwan is reviewed and includes three species. Two new species, J. kuanae sp. nov. and J. taiwana sp. nov., are described, and J. inouyei Matsumura is redescribed. The fourth and fifth instar nymph of J. taiwana sp. nov. is described for the first time. A dichotomous key for the identification of the five species of Jembra is also presented.

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