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Issue: Vol. 2497 No. 1: 7 Jun. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-06-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2497.1.2
Page range: 37–61
Abstract views: 31
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Review of Empoasca (Distantasca) Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with description of two new species from China

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Hemiptera Homoptera Cicadomorpha Empoasca (Distantasca) new species taxonomy China

Abstract

A key to known species of the subgenus Empoasca (Distantasca) is provided. Two new species, E. (Distantasca) latibasis Zhang and Liu sp. n. and E. (D.) tuberculata Zhang and Liu sp. n., are described and illustrated from Yunnan Province (SW China).

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