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Issue: Vol. 3067 No. 1: 25 Oct. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-10-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3067.1.3
Page range: 35–48
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species and one new record of the genus Caliscelis de Laporte (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Caliscelidae) from China

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People’s Republic of China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People’s Republic of China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People’s Republic of China
Hemiptera taxonomy Homoptera Fulgoromorpha new species new record China

Abstract

This paper examines five species of the genus Caliscelis de Laporte, of which two new species, C. rhabdocladis sp. nov.and C. triplicata sp. nov., are described and illustrated, C. affinis Fieber is reported for the first time from China, and other two known species C. orientalis Ôuchi and C. chinensis Melichar are redescribed and illustrated. A checklist of the world Caliscelis fauna and a key to all Chinese species of Caliscelis are provided.

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