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Issue: Vol. 1457 No. 1: 25 Apr. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-04-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1457.1.3
Page range: 49–55
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 1

Three new Old World species of the leafhopper genus Scaphoideus Uhler  (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae)

The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, U.K.
The University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore 560065, India
Hemiptera Deltocephalinae morphology France Burkina Faso Vietnam Uganda Southeast Asia Japan

Abstract

Three new species of Scaphoideus Uhler, S. dellagiustinai sp. nov. from N. Africa (Burkina Faso) and S. France (Montpelier), S. unimaculatus sp. nov. from E. Africa (Uganda) and S. quangtriensis sp. nov. from Vietnam, are described and figured. The three species are compared to the similar S. rubroguttatus Matsumura and S. baeticus Distant and figures are provided for these and Scaphoideus albosignatus (Distant) (Platyretus), comb. nov.

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