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Issue: Vol. 4242 No. 2: 10 Mar. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-03-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4242.2.8
Page range: 359–371
Abstract views: 79
PDF downloaded: 1

Revision of the South American grassland leafhopper genus Cortona Oman (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) with description of four new species from Argentina

School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui Province 230036, China
Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha morphology taxonomy new species

Abstract

The South American leafhopper genus Cortona is moved from Macrostelini to Deltocephalini and is reviewed. Its type species and four new species, C. catanachae sp. n., C. concordica sp. n., C. otamendiensis sp. n., and C. silvai sp. n., are illustrated and described from Argentina. A checklist and a key to species are provided.

 

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