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Issue: Vol. 2142 No. 1: 26 Jun. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-06-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2142.1.2
Page range: 20–28
Abstract views: 69
PDF downloaded: 3

Three new species of Dikrella Oman (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from Minas Gerais State, Brazil

Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Caixa Postal 68044, CEP 21944-970, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Caixa Postal 68044, CEP 21944-970, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Hemiptera taxonomy leafhopper diversity Atlantic Forest Dikraneurini

Abstract

Dikrella aculeata sp. nov., D. reticulata sp. nov. and D. spinifera sp. nov. are described and figured based on male specimens obtained from light trap collections at Mata do Paraíso, Municipality of Viçosa, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The genus Dikrella is recorded from Minas Gerais for the first time.

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