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Issue: Vol. 4169 No. 2: 20 Sept. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-09-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.8
Page range: 376–376
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PDF downloaded: 1

A new synonymy in the genus Macrocixius (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae)

Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary.
Institute of Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Weijin Rd. 94, 300071 Tianjin, China.
Hemiptera Fulgoromorpha Cixiidae

Abstract

Until recently the genus Macrocixius Matsumura, 1914 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) contained two species: M. giganteus Matsumura, 1914 (the type species) and M. grossus Tsaur & Hsu, 1991. Two recent papers revised the genus within a short interval of time. Both Zhang & Chen (2013) and Orosz (2013) provided redescriptions of the genus and its two previously included species; Zhang & Chen (2013) described two new species from China; Orosz (2013) described five new species from Nepal, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

 

References

  1. Orosz, A. (2013) A review of the genus Macrocixius with descriptions of five new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae Biologicae, 98 (2), 97–142.

    Zhang, P. & Chen, X.S. (2013) Taxonomic study on the planthopper genus Macrocixius Matsumura (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with descriptions of two new species from China. Zootaxa, 3646 (3), 277–288.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3646.3.6