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Issue: Vol. 3157 No. 1: 11 Jan. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-01-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3157.1.4
Page range: 41–53
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 3

Revision of the Oriental leafhopper genus Parallygus Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) with description of new species

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Integrated Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Department of Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore 560065, India
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Integrated Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha Cicadomorpha taxonomy morphology distribution

Abstract

The Oriental leafhopper genus Parallygus Melichar is revised and redescribed based on study of its type species, P. divar-icatus Melichar, from Sri Lanka. Based on its paired aedeagal shafts, a feature of some other tribes, it is only tentativelyretained in Athysanini. Three new species, Parallygus burmindicus Viraktamath & Webb, sp. nov. (India: West Bengal,Meghalya; Myanmar: Mishmi Hills), P. jiuhuaensis Dai & Zhang, sp. nov. (China: Anhui) and P. rameshi Viraktamath &Webb, sp. nov. (India: West Bengal) are described and illustrated together with P. divaricatus Melichar and Parallygusguttatus Matsumura comb. reinstated described from Taiwan. The latter species is reinstated into its original genus Pa-rallygus from Phlepsius and is also recorded from mainland China and India (new records). A key to species is also provided.

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