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Issue: Vol. 1727 No. 1: 14 Mar. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-03-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1727.1.8
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 57
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Machaerota Burmeister (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Machaerotidae) from China and Laos

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Da-tun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, P. R. China Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19 Yu-quan Road, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Da-tun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, P. R. China
Hemiptera Machaerotidae Machaerota China Laos taxonomy new species

Abstract

A new species of the tube spittlebug genus Machaerota Burmeister (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Machaerotidae), M. conicapita sp. nov. (southwestern China: Yunnan; Laos: Borikhane) is described and illustrated. A checklist of Machaerota from China and a key to 12 species are provided.

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