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Issue: Vol. 4018 No. 4: 17 Sept. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-09-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.4.5
Page range: 563–572
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 2

A new Asian genus of the tribe Elicini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Tropiduchidae) with two new species from Vietnam

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education; Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China Département Systématique et Evolution, UMR 7205-ISYEB, MNHN-CNRS-UPMC-EPHE, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 50, 45 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 64, Wilcza Street, PL00-679 Warszawa, Poland
Département Systématique et Evolution, UMR 7205-ISYEB, MNHN-CNRS-UPMC-EPHE, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 50, 45 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education; Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Hemiptera Fulgoroidea planthoppers taxonomy new taxa Vietnam China

Abstract

A new genus Connelicita gen. nov. with 2 new species (C. backyensis sp. nov. and C. haiphongensis sp. nov.) of Tropiduchidae Elicini from Vietnam are described and illustrated. The Chinese species C. lungchowensis (Chou et Lu, 1977) comb. nov. is transferred into this new genus from the genus Sassula (Nogodinidae). A key to species of the new genus distributed in North Vietnam and China (Guangxi) is provided.