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Issue: Vol. 5463 No. 1: 4 Jun. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-06-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5463.1.10
Page range: 145-150
Abstract views: 7
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A new species and new records of the leafhopper genera Dryadomorpha Kirkaldy, 1906 and Stenogiffardia Evans, 1977 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from Equatorial Africa

Zoological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; 1 Universitetskaya Emb.; Saint Petersburg 199034; Russia
Hemiptera Chiasmini Drabescini new record new species Democratic Republic of Congo

Abstract

A new species of the leafhopper genus Dryadomorpha Kirkaldy, 1906 (tribe Drabescini), D. tricornis sp. n., is described from the Democratic Republic of Congo. New records from Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, and the Democratic Republic of Congo are given for Dryadomorpha pallida Kirkaldy, 1906 and Stenogiffardia graminea (Theron, 1982) (tribe Chiasmini).

 

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