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Issue: Vol. 1372 No. 1: 4 Dec. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-12-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1372.1.3
Page range: 27–33
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 22

Paradoxivena, a new leafhopper genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Stegelytrinae) from Tibet, 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
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, SW7 5BD, London, UK
Hemiptera taxonomy morphology behavior mud-puddling host-plants

Abstract

A new Oriental leafhopper genus, Paradoxivena gen. nov. based on one species, P. zhamuensis sp. nov., from Tibet, China, is described and illustrated, and placed in Stegelytrinae. The relationship between the new genus and other taxa is discussed.

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