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Issue: Vol. 1298 No. 1: 17 Aug. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-08-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1298.1.6
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 84
PDF downloaded: 63

Two new species of Graphocephala Van Duzee from Costa Rica (Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae)

Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro de Montes de Oca. San José, Costa Rica
Centro de Investigación en Biología Celular y Molecular, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2060, San José, Costa Rica
Hemiptera Auchenorryncha leafhopper taxonomy Xylella coffee

Abstract

The genus Grahocephala, which was described by Van Duzee (1916), is a large complex group distributed from southern Canada to Colombia, Venezuela, and French Guiana. Young (1977) revised the genus and described twelve new species. Later, Nielson and Godoy (1995) added five more species. In this paper two new species are described from Costa Rica: G. crusa and G. riverae. The first species showed positive DAS-ELISA results for the bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa.

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