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Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-30
Page range: 445–450
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Review of the genus Relaba (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Alebrini) and description of two new species from Argentina

Centro de Bioinvestigaciones, Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Monteagudo 2772, Pergamino, Buenos Aires, 2700, Argentina. CIC.
División Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Paseo del Bosque s/n, La Plata, Buenos Aires, 1900, Argentina. CIC.
Illinois Natural History Survey, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, University of Illinois, 1816 S. Oak Street, Champaign, Illinois, 61820, USA
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha new species morphology distribution

Abstract

The genus Relaba is reviewed, and two new species, R. forcipula n. sp. and R. globata n. sp. are added. Detailed morphological descriptions and illustrations of the new species, and a key to males of known species are provided.

 

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