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Issue: Vol. 3537 No. 1: 2 Nov. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-11-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3537.1.3
Page range: 41–52
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

A taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genera Gurawa Distant and Chiasmus Mulsant & Rey (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Chiasmini) from China with description of a new species

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui Province 230036, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China.
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha taxonomy morphology identification

Abstract

Chinese species of Gurawa Distant (tribe Chiasmini) are reviewed and a new species, Gurawa truncata sp. nov., is described and illustrated. The related genus Chiasmus Mulsant & Rey is reported from China for the first time and descriptions and illustrations are provided for the genus and one undetermined species. Checklists to species of both genera are provided.

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