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Issue: Vol. 4462 No. 2: 27 Aug. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-08-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.2.5
Page range: 237–244
Abstract views: 44
PDF downloaded: 1

A key to species of the leafhopper genus Tambocerus (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae) with description of a new species from Pakistan

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China
Hemiptera Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha taxonomy morphology new species

Abstract

The leafhopper genus Tambocerus Zhang & Webb is reported from Pakistan for the first time with the description of a new species, Tambocerus bulbulus sp. nov. A species checklist with distribution summary and a key to species for males are provided.

 

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