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Issue: Vol. 1296 No. 1: 17 Aug. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-08-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1296.1.5
Page range: 55–61
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 3

Sphenocratus xinjiangensis Liang, sp. nov., the first authentic record of the dictyopharid subfamily Orgeriinae (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Dictyopharidae) in China

Department of Entomology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Zhongguancun Road, Beijing 100080, P.R. China
Key Lab of Insect Evolution & Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100037, P.R. China
Department of Entomology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Zhongguancun Road, Beijing 100080, P.R. China
Hemiptera Dictyopharidae Orgeriinae Sphenocratus new species China

Abstract

A new dictyopharid planthopper species, Sphenocratus xinjiangensis Liang, sp. nov. (subfamily Orgeriinae), is described and illustrated from Xinjiang in northwestern China. This represents the first authentic record of the genus Sphenocratus Horváth, 1910 as well as of the subfamily Orgeriinae in China. The new species extends the range of the genus Sphenocratus and the subfamily Orgeriinae southeastward considerably.

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