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Issue: Vol. 4250 No. 2: 4 Apr. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-04-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4250.2.5
Page range: 191–197
Abstract views: 76
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Two new species in the genus Kolla Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae:
Cicadellinae) from China, with DNA barcoding data

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P.R. China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P.R. China
Hemiptera Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha morphology taxonomy DNA barcodes

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Kolla from China, K. medsimilis and K. brevis spp. nov., are described and illustrated. Sequence data for the barcoding region of mitochondrial gene COI for these two new species were obtained and deposited in GenBank.

 

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