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Issue: Vol. 4604 No. 1: 13 May 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-05-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4604.1.7
Page range: 176–182
Abstract views: 164
PDF downloaded: 2

Two new genera of Pacific Paraboloponina leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Drabescini) with description of three new species

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum of Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Illinois Natural History Survey, Institute for Natural Resource Sustainability, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 5BD
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum of Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Auchenorrhyncha Selenocephalinae Paraboloponini taxonomy Hemiptera

Abstract

Two new genera, Malaysiapona gen. nov. and Chandrapona gen. nov. of Paraboloponina leafhoppers (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Drabescini) with their unusally developed aedeagal base are described from the Pacific (Malaysia). The following new species are also described with the new genera: Malaysiapona brevipenis sp. nov. from Sabah, M. filamenta sp. nov., from Sarawak and Chandrapona vespertilis sp. nov. from Sabah.

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