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Issue: Vol. 5361 No. 4: 3 Nov. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-11-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5361.4.8
Page range: 579-584
Abstract views: 156
PDF downloaded: 14

Taxonomy of the leafhopper genus Adama (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Selenocephalini: Adamina) with description of a new species from Botswana

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management; Ministry of Education; Entomological Museum; College of Plant Protection; Northwest A&F University; Yangling; Shaanxi 712100; China. College of Life Sciences; Yan’an University; Yan’an; Shaanxi 716000; China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management; Ministry of Education; Entomological Museum; College of Plant Protection; Northwest A&F University; Yangling; Shaanxi 712100; China
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha Adamina Adama (Zinjella) taxonomy

Abstract

The leafhopper genus Adama is reviewed with the description of a new species, Adama (Zinjella) serriformis sp. nov., from Botswana. An updated checklist with distributions and a key to species of this subgenus are also provided. The type specimen of this new species is deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, U.K. (BMNH).

 

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