Four new species of genus Parallaxis McAtee (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Dikraneurini) from Argentina, with a key to known species

MARÍA INÉS CATALANO; SUSANA L. PARADELL; CHRISTOPHER H. DIETRICH

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3737.3.3

Issue: Vol. 3737 No. 3: 20 Nov. 2013

Type: Article

Published: 2013-11-20

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.3.3

Page range: 241–250

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**Four new species of genus Parallaxis McAtee (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Dikraneurini) from Argentina, with a key to known species**

MARÍA INÉS CATALANO⁺⁻
SUSANA L. PARADELL⁺⁻
CHRISTOPHER H. DIETRICH⁺⁻

Centro de Bioinvestigaciones, Departamento de Ciencias Básicas y Experimentales, Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Monteagudo 2772, Pergamino, Buenos Aires, 2700, Argentina. CONICET

División Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Paseo del Bosque s/n, La Plata, Buenos Aires, 1900, Argentina. CIC

Illinois Natural History Survey, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, University of Illinois, 1816 S. Oak Street, Champaign, Illinois, 61820, USA

Auchenorrhyncha identification morphology distribution

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Abstract

Four new species of Parallaxis McAtee are described from Argentina, P. jujuiensis sp. n., P. misionensis sp. n., P. tucumanensis sp. n. and P. virlai sp. n. Detailed morphological descriptions and illustrations of the new species and a key to males of known species are provided.