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Three new species of Atkinsoniella from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini)

Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University; The Provincial Key Laboratory for Agricultural Pest Management of Mountainous Region, Guiyang, Guizhou, P. R. China, 550025
Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University; The Provincial Key Laboratory for Agricultural Pest Management of Mountainous Region, Guiyang, Guizhou, P. R. China, 550025
Hemiptera Membracoidea Auchenorrhyncha Cicadellinae sharpshooter morphology taxonomy

Abstract

Three new species of Atkinsoniella Distant, 1908 from China are described and illustrated: A. biundulata sp. nov., A. cuspidata sp. nov., and A. motuoensis sp. nov. The type specimens of the new species are deposited in the Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China, except for A. motuoensis, which is deposited in the Shanghai Entomological Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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