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Issue: Vol. 1966 No. 1: 17 Dec. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-12-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1966.1.3
Page range: 62–68
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new empoascine leafhopper genera and species (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from southern China, with a key to Chinese genera of Empoascini

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, 712100, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, 712100, China
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha Empoascini Luodianasca gen. nov. Treufalka gen. nov. taxonomy distribution

Abstract

Two new genera and species of empoascine leafhoppers, Luodianasca recurvata and Treufalka lamellata are described from southern China. A key to these and other Empoascini genera from China is also provided.

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