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Issue: Vol. 2651 No. 1: 20 Oct. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-10-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2651.1.4
Page range: 52–58
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of Japanagallia Ishihara, 1955 from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae)

College of Life Sciences and Technology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010022, China
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha Membracoidea Agalliini morphology taxonomy leafhopper

Abstract

Two new leafhopper species of the genus Japanagallia, J. spinosa sp. nov. and J. lamellata sp. nov. are described and illustrated from southern China. A redescription of the genus is provided and a key to Chinese species of the genus is also given.

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