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Issue: Vol. 4551 No. 4: 4 Feb. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-02-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4551.4.10
Page range: 494–500
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A new species and new record of the leafhopper genus Balclutha (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China with key to 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
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum of Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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
Hemiptera Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha Macrostelini Balcluthini taxonomy

Abstract

A new species, Balclutha longispina sp. nov. from Yunnan Province of China, is described and Balclutha sinuata Webb & Vilbaste is recored from China (Tibet) for the first time. A key to males of Chinese Balclutha species is provided.

 

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