First record of the leafhopper genus Sweta Viraktamath & Dietrich (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae,Typhlocybinae) from China, with description of one new species feeding on bamboo | Zendy

Xiang-Sheng Chen | Zendy; Lin Yang | Zendy; Zizhong Li | Zendy

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First record of the leafhopper genus Sweta Viraktamath & Dietrich (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae,Typhlocybinae) from China, with description of one new species feeding on bamboo

Author(s) -

Xiang-Sheng Chen,

Lin Yang,

Zizhong Li

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

zookeys

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 1313-2989

pISSN - 1313-2970

DOI - 10.3897/zookeys.187.2805

Subject(s) - leafhopper , hemiptera , biology , auchenorrhyncha , bamboo , cicadomorpha , genus , key (lock) , taxon , china , botany , taxonomy (biology) , bambusa , homoptera , type species , zoology , ecology , pest analysis , political science , law

Sweta bambusanasp. n. (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Dikraneurini), a new bamboo-feeding species, is described and illustrated from Guizhou and Guangdong of China. This represents the first record of the genus Sweta Viraktamath& Dietrich from China and the second known species of the genus. The new taxon extends the range of the genus Sweta, previously known only from northeast India and Thailand, considerably eastwards. A key for separation of the species of Sweta is given.

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