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Issue: Vol. 5339 No. 1: 28 Aug. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-08-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5339.1.5
Page range: 88-94
Abstract views: 175
PDF downloaded: 23

A new leafhopper genus with description of a new species of Scaphoideini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from Saudi Arabia

King Saud University Museum of Arthropods; Plant Protection Department; College of Food and Agriculture Sciences; King Saud University; P.O. Box 2460; Riyadh 11451; Saudi Arabia
Department of Natural Sciences; National Museum of Wales; Cardiff; CF10 3NP. Wales; United Kingdom
King Saud University Museum of Arthropods; Plant Protection Department; College of Food and Agriculture Sciences; King Saud University; P.O. Box 2460; Riyadh 11451; Saudi Arabia
Hemiptera auchenorrhyncha distribution Grammacephalus Nataretus Paranataretus P. juwayriyae P. brevis

Abstract

The genus Paranataretus El-Sonbati gen. n. is described from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with P. juwayriyae El-Sonbati sp. n. as the type species. Grammacephalus brevis Gnezdilov, 2020 from Madagascar, is placed here in this new genus, as Paranataretus brevis (Gnezdilov) comb. n. A key to the species of Paranataretus is also provided.

 

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