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Issue: Vol. 4276 No. 4: 14 Jun. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-06-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4276.4.4
Page range: 519–528
Abstract views: 114
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Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genera Farynala Dworakowska and Xaniona Zhang & Huang (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Typhlocybini), with descriptions of three new species from China

Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University; Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory for Agricultural Pest Management of the Mountainous Region, Guizhou University; the Provincial Special Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Insect Resource, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025 P. R. China
Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University; Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory for Agricultural Pest Management of the Mountainous Region, Guizhou University; the Provincial Special Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Insect Resource, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025 P. R. China
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha leafhopper morphology taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Farynala Dworakowska, 1970 and one new species of the genus Xaniona Zhang & Huang, 2005 are described and illustrated: F. dextra sp. nov., F. sinistra sp. nov. and X. falcata sp. nov.. Keys and checklists of genera are provided. The type specimens are deposited in the Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China (GUGC).

 

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