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Issue: Vol. 4948 No. 3: 22 Mar. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-03-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4948.3.4
Page range: 381–403
Abstract views: 228
PDF downloaded: 11

Review of the Pacific leafhopper genus Hecaloidella (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Selenocephalini) with description of sixteen new species

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, ME15 6QX, UK
Biological Engineering Laboratory of Crop Diseases and Pests of Gansu Province, College of Plant Protection, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730070, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha Selenocephalina taxonomy morphology

Abstract

Eighteen species of the Pacific leafhopper genus Hecaloidella Osborn, 1934 are described and illustrated and a key provided for their separation. The previously described species, H. nitida Osborn (type species) and H. brunnifacialis Shang & Zhang, and the following sixteen new species are treated: H. brunifasciata Zhang & Webb, H. bimaculata Zhang & Webb, H. borneoensis Zhang & Webb, H. brevis Zhang & Webb, H. brevipenis Zhang & Webb, H. brevispina Zhang & Webb, H. caudospina Zhang & Webb, H. knighti Zhang & Webb, H. longipenis Zhang & Webb, H. nudapenis Zhang & Webb, H. pacifica Zhang & Webb, H. quadripicta Zhang & Webb, H. quadrispina Zhang & Webb, H. sandakanensis Zhang & Webb, H. singaporensis Zhang & Webb and H. spinosa Zhang & Webb spp. nov..

 

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