New species and records of Asymmetrasca (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini) from China and name changes in Empoasca (Matsumurasca)

YANG LIU; MURRAY J. FLETCHER; CHRISTOPHER H. DIETRICH; YA-LIN ZHANG

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3768.3.4

Issue: Vol. 3768 No. 3: 26 Feb. 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-02-26

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3768.3.4

Page range: 327–350

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**New species and records of Asymmetrasca (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae:** Typhlocybinae: Empoascini) from China and name changes in Empoasca **(Matsumurasca)**

YANG LIU⁺⁻
MURRAY J. FLETCHER⁺⁻
CHRISTOPHER H. DIETRICH⁺⁻
YA-LIN ZHANG⁺⁻

College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Taibai North Road 229, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710069, China

Orange Agricultural Institute, NSW Dept of Primary Industries, Forest Road, Orange, New South Wales, 2800, Australia

Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, 607 Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL, 61820, USA

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China

Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha leafhopper morphology taxonomy identification

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Abstract

Six new species of Asymmetrasca Dlabola are described from China: A. dahaituoensis, A. helica, A. hypercurvata, A. liaoensis, A. reflexilis, A. uncus spp. nov. In addition, A. cienka Dworakowska, 1982, n. comb.; A. decedens Paoli, 1932 and A. sakaii Dworakowska 1971, n. comb., are recorded from China for the first time. The following additional new combinations from Empoasca are also proposed: A. cisiana (Dworakowska, 1971); A. kaicola (Dworakowska, 1982), A. lutowa (Dworakowska, 1971), A. mona (Dworakowska, 1994), A. nipponica (Dworakowska 1982), A. rybiogon (Dworakowska, 1971), and A. uniprossicae (Sohi, 1977). Empoasca (Empoasca) kishtwarensis Sharma, 1984 is proposed as a new synonym of Asymmetrasca kaicola (Dworakowska, 1982). Habitus photos and illustrations of the male genitalia of the new species and a key to Chinese species are provided. New names are proposed to replace two junior homonyms in Empoasca (Matsumurasca).