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Issue: Vol. 4277 No. 1: 15 Jun. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-06-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.1.9
Page range: 122–128
Abstract views: 71
PDF downloaded: 1

Redescription of the Philippine leafhopper genus Iposcopus Baker (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Idiocerinae)

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
USDA/ARS Systematic Entomology Laboratory, c/o National Museum of Natural History, MRC-168, 10th St. and Constitution Ave., Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
Hemiptera Cicadellidae Idiocerinae

Abstract

The Philippine leafhopper genus Iposcopus Baker is redescribed. The male and female genitalia of I. breviceps and I. distanti are described and illustrated for the first time.

        Baker (1915) established the genus Iposcopus and included two new species, I. breviceps and I. distanti (the type species) from the Philippines. Previously, only the external morphology and color have been described, not the genitalia. Here we first give a more complete description of the species, including male and female genitalia.

 

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