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Issue: Vol. 4712 No. 4: 23 Dec. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-12-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4712.4.8
Page range: 595–599
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A new species in the grass feeding leafhopper genus Hecalus Stål from Pakistan (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Hecalini)

College of Life Science, Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan 614004, China 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
Key Laboratory for Humid Subtropical Eco-Geographical Processes of the Ministry of Education, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China.
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
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 Cicadomorpha taxonomy distribution

Abstract

A new leafhopper species Hecalus rawalakotensis sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Rawalakot, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. A key is provided to distinguish all species in this genus from Pakistan.

 

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