Two new genera of Pacific Paraboloponina leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Drabescini) with description of three new species

Lin Lu; Christopher H Dietrich; M D Webb; Yalin Zhang

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4604.1.7

Two new genera of Pacific Paraboloponina leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Drabescini) with description of three new species

Zootaxa. 2019 May 13;4604(1):zootaxa.4604.1.7. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4604.1.7.

Authors

Lin Lu¹, Christopher H Dietrich, M D Webb, Yalin Zhang

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum of Northwest AF University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China. user@example.com.

PMID: 31717206
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4604.1.7

Abstract

Two new genera, Malaysiapona gen. nov. and Chandrapona gen. nov. of Paraboloponina leafhoppers (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Drabescini) with their unusally developed aedeagal base are described from the Pacific (Malaysia). The following new species are also described with the new genera: Malaysiapona brevipenis sp. nov. from Sabah, M. filamenta sp. nov., from Sarawak and Chandrapona vespertilis sp. nov. from Sabah.

Keywords: Auchenorrhyncha, Selenocephalinae, Paraboloponini, taxonomy, Hemiptera.

MeSH terms

Animals
Hemiptera*
Malaysia