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Issue: Vol. 5691 No. 2: 9 Sept. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-09-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5691.2.1
Page range: 151-192
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Annotated type catalogue of the leafhoppers and treehoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) deposited in the collection of Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Guanajuato, Mexico

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Instituto de Biología; Departamento de Zoología; Colección Nacional de Insectos; Cto. Zona Deportiva S/N; Ciudad Universitaria; C.P. 04510; CDMX; Mexico.; Illinois Natural History Survey; Prairie Research Institute; University of Illinois; 1816 S. Oak Street; 61820; Champaign; Illinois; USA.
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco; Calz. del Hueso 1100; Coapa; Villa Quietud; Coyoacán; 04960 Ciudad de México; CDMX; Mexico.
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales; Agrícolas y Pecuarias. Campo Experimental Bajío. Guanajuato; Mexico.
Universidad de Guadalajara; Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias; Departamento de Botánica y Zoología; Laboratorio de Ecología de Insectos. Camino Ramón Padilla Sánchez 2100; Las Agujas; C.P. 45220; Zapopan; Jalisco; Mexico.
Tecnológico Nacional de México. Instituto Tecnológico José Mario Molina Pasquel y Henríquez. Unidad Académica Tala. Av. Tecnológico 2010; Centro; 45300 Tala; Jalisco; Mexico.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Facultad de Ciencias; Investigación Científica; C.U.; Coyoacán; 04510 Ciudad de México; CDMX; Mexico.
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México; Facultad de Ciencias; Campus El Cerrillo; Supermanzana Carretera Km 15.5; Piedras Blancas; 50200 Toluca de Lerdo; Estado de México; México.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Facultad de Ciencias; Investigación Científica; C.U.; Coyoacán; 04510 Ciudad de México; CDMX; Mexico.
Maestría en Ciencias en Biosistemática y Manejo de Recursos Naturales y Agrícolas; Universidad de Guadalajara; Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias; Cam. Ramón Padilla Sánchez 2100; Las Agujas; 44600 Zapopan; Jal.; Mexico.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Instituto de Biología; Departamento de Zoología; Colección Nacional de Insectos; Cto. Zona Deportiva S/N; Ciudad Universitaria; C.P. 04510; CDMX; Mexico.
Hemiptera INIFAP Membracoidea Cicadellidae Membracidae lost specimens type-specimens

Abstract

The Insect Collection of the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (CNI-INIFAP) in Guanajuato state is one of the oldest collections in Mexico with remarkable and historical holding of 240,000 specimens primarily composed of insect orders of economic importance. With 14,500 specimens obtained over 70 years from most agricultural areas in Mexico, Auchenorrhyncha is well represented in the collection, but has received little attention and its value has been largely ignored in research. However, it holds a valuable stock of types designated by taxonomic authorities such as James P. Kramer, David Young Jr., Robert F. Ruppel, Dwight M. DeLong, and Charles. C. Plummer. Here, an annotated Auchenorrhyncha catalogue of the Insect Collection of the INIFAP is presented. Complete information for each species, including those designated as types, specialized references, labels data from original description, and high-quality photographs are given. A total of 28 types (one holotype and 27 paratypes) are listed, of which six species belong to Membracidae and 22 to Cicadellidae. A total of 147 Auchenorrhyncha species are retained into the INIFAP collection, 132 spp. of 68 genera for leafhoppers and 12 spp. of six genera for treehoppers. Three leafhopper species: Parallaxis ornata Osborn, 1928, Rhabdotalebra signata (McAtee, 1926), and Diceratalebra sanguinolinea (Baker, 1903), are presented as new records for Mexico.

 

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How to Cite

Pinedo-Escatel, J.A., Blanco-Rodríguez, E., Jarillo, A.M., Becerra-Chiron, I.M., Torres-Moreno, R., Vega-Ovando, F.R., Chávez-Gutiérrez, M.V., Báez-Merino, A., Ortiz-Tovar, V.H. & Brailovsky, H. (2025)

Annotated type catalogue of the leafhoppers and treehoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) deposited in the collection of Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Guanajuato, Mexico

. Zootaxa, 5691 (2), 151–192. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5691.2.1