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Issue: Vol. 3779 No. 5: 19 Mar. 2014
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2014-03-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3779.5.10
Page range: 597–600
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 1

Nirvanguina Zhang & Webb (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), a new record for China, with description of a new species

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum of Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha taxonomy morphology

Abstract

The previously monotypic leafhopper genus Nirvanguina Zhang & Webb (Deltocephalinae, Drabescini, Paraboloponina), recorded from Australia and New Guinea, is recorded from mainland Asia (China) for the first time and a new species, N. pectena sp. nov., from Fanjingshan Mountain in Guizhou Prov., China, is described and illustrated.