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Issue: Vol. 2674 No. 1: 11 Nov. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-11-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2674.1.2
Page range: 26–32
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 1

On the identity of Chunra gigantea Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), the largest member of the arboreal leafhopper subfamily Idiocerinae

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P. R. China
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD, UK
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P. R. China
Hemiptera Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha Megipocerini new genus morphology sexual dimorphism Malaysia

Abstract

Kuchingella Wei & Webb, gen. n. is established in the leafhopper tribe Megipocerini of the subfamily Idiocerinae, with Chunra gigantea Distant as its type species, based on the description of the male of this species for the first time. The similarity of the new genus to the related genus, Megipocerus Zachvatkin, is discussed. The rostrum of both genera is sexually dimorphic.

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    Zachvatkin, A.A. (1945). A Chunra-like Bythoscopid (Homoptera) from east Siberia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series (B), 14, 2–5.