A new species of the Oriental leafhopper genus Kutara Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from Vietnam

Deliang Xu; Christopher H Dietrich; M D Webb; Yalin Zhang

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.8

A new species of the Oriental leafhopper genus Kutara Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from Vietnam

Zootaxa. 2020 May 11;4772(3):zootaxa.4772.3.8. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.8.

Authors

Deliang Xu¹, Christopher H Dietrich, M D Webb, Yalin Zhang

Affiliation

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

PMID: 33055607
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.8

Abstract

The Oriental leafhopper genus Kutara Distant, 1908 (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Drabescini: Paraboloponina) is newly recorded from Vietnam with description of a new species K. trispinosa Xu Zhang sp. nov.. An updated checklist, with distribution and a key to males of Kutara, are also provided. The type specimens of the new species are deposited in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (MNHN) and the Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, USA (INHS).

Keywords: Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Paraboloponina, taxonomy, morphology.

MeSH terms

Animals
Hemiptera*
Male
Vietnam