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Issue: Vol. 4132 No. 2: 29 Jun. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-06-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4132.2.8
Page range: 275–278
Abstract views: 64
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A new species of Rotigonalia (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Peru with a key to males of the genus

Reserva Biológica Guaribas, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Rodovia PB 071, Km 01, 58280-000, Mamanguape, Paraíba, Brazil. Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia), Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil
Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, CNPq fellow.
Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campus I, 58059-900, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil.
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha sharpshooter taxonomy morphology new species

Abstract

Rotigonalia regina sp. nov. is described and illustrated based on a male specimen from Pasco, Peru. The holotype of R. regina is rather large in comparison with other specimens of the genus, but the inflated clypeus and the shape of the paraphyses support its inclusion in Rotigonalia Young, 1977. A key to males of the five known species of Rotigonalia is given.

 

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