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Issue: Vol. 2264 No. 1: 14 Oct. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-10-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2264.1.2
Page range: 23–40
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 1

Nine new species of the Oriental leafhopper genus Salka Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, National Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, P. O. Box 55#, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, National Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, P. O. Box 55#, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, National Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, P. O. Box 55#, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Hemiptera Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha Erythroneurini taxonomy

Abstract

Generic characteristics of Salka Dworakowska are given and nine new species, Salka crassiprocessa, S. lamella, S. jianfengensis, S. diaoluoensis, S. nangongensis, S. longiprocessa, S. jiangshiensis, S. longihamata and S. singularis spp. n. from China are described and illustrated. A key to males and a species checklist of Chinese Salka are provided.

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