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Issue: Vol. 2794 No. 1: 18 Mar. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-03-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2794.1.3
Page range: 52–56
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 3

New tribal placement for the leafhopper genus Evinus Dlabola (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), with description of a new species from China

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 taxonomy Hecalini Macrostelini China

Abstract

The leafhopper genus Evinus Dlabola is formally transferred from Hecalini to Macrostelini (Deltocephalinae) and is reported from China for the first time. One new species from China, E. macrospinus sp. n. is described and a key to species is provided.

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